Welcome back, my hacker novitiates!
Recently, I demonstrated a hack where you could redirect traffic intended for one site,
such as bankofamerica.com, to your fake website. Of course, to really
make this work, you would need to make a replica of the site you were
spoofing, or better yet, you could simply simply make a copy of the
original site and host it on your own server!
HTTrack is just the tool for doing that.
HTTrack
takes any website and makes a copy to your hard drive. This can be
useful for searching for data on the website offline such as email
addresses, information useful for social engineering, hidden password
files (believe me, I have found a few), intellectual property, or maybe
replicating a login page for a Evil Twin site to capture login credentials.
Unfortunately, HTTrack is not included in Kali,
so we will need to download and install it. Fortunately, though, it is
included in the Kali repository, so all we need to do is open the
software repository and download and install it.
HTTrack comes in
both a Windows and a Linux version. For those of you who refuse to take
off the training wheels, you can download and install
HTTrack for Windows on its website.
Step 1: Download & Install HTTrack
From Kali, we need to navigate to "System Tools" and then "Add/Remove Software," like in the screenshot below.
That will open a screen like the one below. Notice the window in the
upper left-hand corner next to the "Find" button. Enter "httrack" there
and it will find the packages you need to install HTTrack.
You can also install it by typing the following in a terminal.
- kali > apt-get install httrack
Step 2: Use HTTrack
Now that we have installed
HTTrack, let's start by looking at the help file for HTTrack. When you
downloaded and installed HTTrack, it placed it in the
/usr/bin directory, so it should be accessible from any directory in Kali as
/usr/bin is in the PATH variable. Let's type:
I've highlighted the key syntax line in the screenshot above. The basic syntax is the following, where
-O stands for "output." This switch tells HTTrack where to send the website to.
- kali > httrack <the URL of the site> [any options] URL Filter -O <location to send copy to>
Using
HTTrack is fairly simple. We need only point it at the website we want
to copy and then direct the output (-O) to a directory on our hard drive
where we want to store the website. One caution here, though. Some
sites are HUGE. If you tried to copy Facebook to your hard drive, I can
guarantee you that you do not have enough drive space, so start small.
Step 3: Test HTTrack
In an earlier tutorial on hacking MySQL databases
behind websites (MySQL is the most widely used database backend behind
websites), we used a website that we could hack with impunity called
webscantest.com. Let's try to make a copy of that site to our hard drive.
As you can see, we successfully made a copy of all the pages of this site on our hard drive.
Step 4: Explore the Site Copy
Now that we have captured and copied the entire site to our hard drive, let's take a look at it.
We
can open the IceWeasel browser (or any browser) and view the contents
of our copied site to the location on our hard drive. Since we copied
the web site to
/tmp/webscantest, we simply point our browser there and can view all the content of the website! If we point it to
/tmp/webscantest/www.webscantest.com/login.html, we can see that we have an exact copy of the login page!
Hmmm...what could we possibly use that for???
Step 5: Copy Our Favorite Web Site
Now, let's
try HTTrack on our favorite website, wonderhowto.com. Let's try to make a
copy of a forum post I wrote last week about the CryptoLocker hack.
First, let's open that page right here and copy the address into Kali after the HTTrack command and then the location where you want send the copy to.
You can send the copied website to any location, but I sent mine to
/tmp/crytoloc. When we do so, HTTrack will go into
Null Byte, grab that webpage, and store an exact copy of it on your hard drive. Notice it also tells us that it is 208 bytes.
As you can see below, we were able to copy my Null Byte article on
CryptoLocker to my Kali hard drive and open an exact copy of it with my
browser.
If you are trying to find information about a particular company for
social engineering or trying to spoof a website or login, HTTrack is an
excellent tool for both tasks. Many of you have been asking about how to
create a clone website for dnsspoof or grab credentials for an Evil Twin, now you have the tool to do so!
