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Geek Culture / Careful with new eBay exploit...

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DARKGuy
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 01:52
I got this in my spam email box in Yahoo... but some might not even notice it's an exploit alert, so here I'm going to explain what did I do...

Finding this in my spam email box, I read the message and decided to have some little fun. I'm going to explain here in steps what does this exploit do.

1. It sends you a mail that looks like this (hilarious thing is that I'm not any eBay user, LOL!)


2. When you open it, it shows like this (sorry for the mouse cursor in the "Verify your ID" link ).


2. When you click it, it redirects you to ANOTHER non-eBay place, take a look at the address bar at the top


3. I wanted to have some fun, so I tried to fool it placing "asd" in both fields...


4. It worked as expected, new form appeared, so I filled the fields accordingly. The credit card number isn't even a fake one, if you look at the source code of the page you'll notice it has the credit card number validator on there, I just had to experiment with it to figure out some valid number this thing could take, and it worked. I'm not allowing it to be seen here as I don't want to create problems, but to save people from a possible one.


5. Worked as expected, and tells you the info you entered was alright, then if you click "Go To Home Page" it sends you to http://www.ebay.com


...just wanted to contribute something, and alert you people of this thing


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 01:58
Er...are you sure you didn't just give away someone else's credit card by accident...?


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DARKGuy
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 02:01
Not really, I got angry with the system and found a site that had some numbers that followed the aglorithm, but I'm not gonna post it here <_< either way, had to make this thing work, and all the info was a lie. , besides, what card would have 1234 as ID number? XD


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UnderLord
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 02:02
Uhh megaton even if the card number he did use was real the pin and ident number are 99.99999999% not real or wrong. Peace.

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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 05:00
they did a resanble job with the site design, but the adress bar is a dead giveaway.

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DARKGuy
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 05:23
They can't even fake it anyways


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Jeku
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 10:19
It's called a phishing scam. I created a thread about this in the past, and even closed one of the sites down in the process. I believe Raven also started a thread about it.

I'm not looking forward to when they can figure out how to spoof the address bar to use ebay.com

Torrey
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 10:39 Edited at: 6th Sep 2005 10:39
Quote: "I'm not looking forward to when they can figure out how to spoof the address bar to use ebay.com"


You're too late, this is already possible. I think it was discovered sometime early last year on how to do it.

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David T
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 10:50
They did it by putting a special 'invisible' character in the address bar. Can't be done any more, IE7 solves the problem with a new URL parsing tool called CURI.

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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 13:14
That is the best looking, most professional Phishing Mail I have seen. The only "weird" bit is the apology at the end.

Personally, I never follow a link in an email, I always go to the login page manually.

Torrey
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 13:28
Tracing that server IP leads to Asia. Which is probably not where the author of that site is from, and most likely they'll never find him because if he's smart he'll use proxy servers.

I wouldn't mind knowing how much money that guy made off the scam, even though I'd probably never find out.

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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 15:32 Edited at: 6th Sep 2005 15:33
To see a clever ebay scam where they popup a floating layer over top of address bar so you think it's ebay, try:

http://218.8.252.73/image/.../

** ABOVE LINK IS ACTUAL SCAM SITE SO DONT FILL IN YOUR DETAILS THERE!!! **

Only works in IE though as it uses a special hack called a chromeless window, where you open a fullscreen window and resize it.

They try their hardest but surely people are not that stupid to fall for these scams.

Boo!
DARKGuy
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 17:02
That's curious, in Firefox, the "Be sure the Web site address you see above starts with https://signin.ebay.com/" ends up being hilarious xD but in IE... that dude's a damn cheater, even though it didn't worked (fake url appeared right BELOW the true one XD)... let's hope IE7 fixes that... -_-


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xtom
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 17:05
The sad thing is there are probably many people out there who will get scammed by something like this.

DARKGuy
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 17:06
That's why I'm putting this here... <.< and maybe in my new site :/ gotta spread it around...


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Killswitch
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 18:12
As it happens people are becomming quite aware of Phising scams, seeing as they're becomming so common.

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DARKGuy
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 18:16
Maybe because they don't know how to do them right anymore? either way, it'd be good if that site gets down, the sooner the better.


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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 20:48
Have you notified ebay about this?

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 21:09 Edited at: 6th Sep 2005 21:13
Hmmm, that has to be the most pro looking pishing scam I've ever seen.. it had me going until I saw the url of the location. The only thing that sparked alarm bells in my head was the strange formatting of the email, generally people put more line breaks in such emails.

Final analysis: I wouldn't fall for it, but my parents would in a heartbeat


edit: ah never mind, I just noticed all the nasty exclimation points in the adress. Only teh evil h4x0rz lot would use triple exclimation points like that !!!

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Posted: 6th Sep 2005 21:13
I didn't think the " !!!" at the end of the subject was very professional

RegenProZ
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 10:23
Ebay will never email you, asking you to click on a link, that asks for any of your information, espacially Credit Card.

Take their I.P, Trace it, and report it.

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Torrey
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 10:59
I always get a lot of phishing scams titled "eBay TKO Notice" or something similar in my email, but they always get deleted instantly after I see them.

Where did the hackers get the "TKO" from? eBay has never sent me a real email with the letters TKO in it, nor have I heard about it from someone else.

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DARKGuy
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 11:27
"TKO"? that's some strange... "word" there :/

Anyways, he's reported, yay .


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Torrey
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Posted: 7th Sep 2005 12:02
Another interesting note, if you notice in the initial URL in that screen shot there is the word "gotovo" this is the russian word for "ready".

My family is Croatian, the word they use for "ready" is "gotov". One letter difference between the two, but I can bet the guy is of slavic origin.

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