Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

MITMf code injection

In this section, we're going to be talking about how to inject code into the browser, into the target computer. Since we're the MITM and since everything flows through our device, when someone requests a page we can actually insert any type of code that we want into that page. Browsers can run two types of code; they can run HTML code, and they can run JavaScript code. HTML code is the code responsible for the way that the page looks, so it's the code for the buttons, for the text, for the images, all of that. It can't really be used to do anything that will allow us to gain any access to the target computer. JavaScript, on the other hand, is a programming language that can be used to do many things, and we'll see that ...