Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Client-side attacks – TDM email spoofing

We've seen how we can backdoor any file and make it look like a document, a song, a program, or an image. Our example was an image, but we can do it on any file. So, we should be gathering information using Maltego and then target the person based on the information gathered. For example, we can pretend to be tech support and ask the target person to install an update and combine our backdoor within an executable, or we can just pretend to be a friend or a colleague and ask the target person to run a certain document or a PDF; the possibilities are endless. In this example, we are going to pretend to be a friend and we are going to ask the target to open a picture of an image, telling them that we ...