{"id":3734,"date":"2018-03-14T19:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2018-03-14T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:36:42","slug":"el-cheapo-man-in-the-middle-attack-example-video-and-ppt-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/2018\/03\/14\/el-cheapo-man-in-the-middle-attack-example-video-and-ppt-available\/","title":{"rendered":"El Cheapo Man-in-the-middle Attack Example Video and PPT Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>I wrote an example of a *very* basic, \u2018El-Cheapo\u2019 man-in-the-middle attack that leverages the Python socket library to \u2018eavesdrop\u2019 on a series of message transmissions between a \u2018legitimate server\u2019 VM and its associated \u2018client\u2019 VM.\u00a0 The &#8216;legitimate&#8217; messages are just basic text messages and a message sequence number.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the attacking VM, called \u2018Evil Server\u2019, spins up a Python socket receive thread that &#8216;hoovers in&#8217; any traffic destined for a predetermined UDP port number and then displays those messages (i.e., the messages sent by the \u2018legitimate\u2019 server that were intended only for the client) .<\/p>\n<p>Evil Server then spins up a send thread which basically starts infinitely broadcasting an \u2018Evil Server message\u2019 which get injected into all the other legitimate messages that are being sent by the legitimate server.<\/p>\n<p>I put delays into the evil server broadcasts so that you can see the intermingled messages that hit the client \u2013 otherwise evil server could also be used as a simple denial of service tool that would swamp both the client and the server as well.<\/p>\n<p>I posted a 5 minute demo video and a ppt deck that explains the environment &#8211; the box link is below<\/p>\n<p>comments welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/myuz5kmq8llgogy\/AABGN4yYKRJSn86dlkq4ziCXa?dl=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/myuz5kmq8llgogy\/AABGN4yYKRJSn86dlkq4ziCXa?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an example of a *very* basic, \u2018El-Cheapo\u2019 man-in-the-middle attack that leverages the Python socket library to \u2018eavesdrop\u2019 on a series of message transmissions between a \u2018legitimate server\u2019 VM and its associated \u2018client\u2019 VM.\u00a0 The &#8216;legitimate&#8217; messages are just basic text messages and a message sequence number. Basically, the attacking VM, called \u2018Evil Server\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}