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Redirection obfuscation in FF and NS


From: RSnake <rsnake () shocking com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:56:04 -0800 (PST)


        ID and I were playing around with some weird redirection
obfuscation and came across these a few days ago (works in latest
version of Firefox and Netscape on untrusted site settings).  Sorry that
this is a little ho-hum but it's probably worth documenting:

        http://www.visa.com@rsnake

        and

        http://rsnake:www.visa.com

        This seems like something that could confuse users.  This is the
same old "feeling lucky" stuff built into browsers.  Not so much a hack
as just confusing behavior to users which could lead to unintended
redirection and potentially more sucessful phishing attacks.  This
relies on being the #1 page rank in something, but that is pretty easy
with obscure search terms.

-RSnake http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html

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