Everyday, all of us are flooded with phishing emails trying to impersonate many well-known brands (Netflix, DHL, Microsoft, Google, Facebook & co). Some phishing campaigns are poorly prepared and can be easily spotted. On the other side, some are really well crafted and, be honest, who never clicked on a malicious link? If the flood is constant, it means that it works! And thread actors expect to get our credentials. But, is it really the case? How fast do they react once we disclosed them? That’s the purpose of our research.
We developed a tool, called PhishTrack, that behaves as a honeypot but with more interaction with phishing kits. The tool is fed with phishing URLs. They are visited, categorized and, if possible, we provide unique credentials. Then, we monitor the honeypot and expect (crossing fingers) that our credentials will be re-used. We simulate classing landing pages and protocols: a web portal, MS account, VPN login, VNC, SSH, RDP (and maybe more soon). As an example, our current record is 3 mins between the phishing page visit and the attempt to (ab)use the credentials from Nigeria.
The talk will be split in two parts: We will introduce the tool, what are the core components, how it works, how we deployed it. The second part of the talk will be a review of our findings.