I am surely missing something here. This seems like a pretty involved phish,
but the initial hook doesn't seem to be baited very well.
Why would anyone think a link that goes to Google would be a legitimate way
to go to PayPal? Why would this be different than leveraging any redirect
system? Why is this noteworthy?
Now, if PayPal had some sort of reusable 404 redirection mechanism, at least
the initial link would appear to go to Paypal, but it sure seems to me that
going to Google first is pointless. Maybe the phisher is tracking the
effectiveness of the lure by watching the referrer?
Dain White
Senior Developer / Webmaster
First Step Internet - www.fsr.com
208-882-8869 ext. 440
-----Original Message-----
From: RSnake [mailto:rsnake_at_shocking.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:58 AM
To: Watchfire Research
Cc: Ofer Shezaf; websecurity_at_webappsec.org; zx_at_castlecops.com;
webappsec_at_securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: [WEB SECURITY] Web Hacking Incident: PayPal Phishing Site
Exploits Google XSS Vulnerability
Google has a number of redirection holes just like the one
mentioned in that article, presumably to track user behavior for more
targeted ads. In a cursory check I found four of them (these all simply
redirect to CNN):
http://froogle.google.com/froogle_url?q=http://www.cnn.com
http://www.google.com/url?sa=l&q=http://www.cnn.com/&ai=BsbPer84UQ7D7B73WsAG
z6_3bAougzgu3ld23AeualQaA8lcQARgBIPJOKAhIkjlQjrnN4Pj_____AcgBAQ&num=1
http://catalogs.google.com/url?sa=H&title=PC+Connection&subtitle=&q=http://w
ww.cnn.com
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=.&imgrefurl=http://www.cnn.com
Although in my mind the only thing that makes this worse than
any other redirection attack is that it's Google, and people trust
Google for some reason.
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Watchfire Research wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As already stated by Stelian Ene in a posting to bugtraq/webappsec
> (@securityfocus.com), the PayPal phishing scam presented below exploit a
> well-known redirection phishing trick via Google's redirection script.
>
> It is important to mention that unlike what stated in
> http://castlecops.com/article-6460-nested-0-0.html, the attack is not
> based on the Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability which was recently
> detected and published by Watchfire in Google's website
> (http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6Z00L0AEUE.html).
>
> Best regards,
> Yair Amit
> Security team
> Watchfire (Israel) Ltd.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ofer Shezaf [mailto:Ofer.Shezaf_at_breach.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:18 PM
> To: websecurity_at_webappsec.org
> Cc: zx_at_castlecops.com
> Subject: [WEB SECURITY] Web Hacking Incident: PayPal Phishing Site
> Exploits Google XSS Vulnerability
>
>
> Since Paul missed our list, I'm forwarding his very interesting e-mail
> regarding a Google XSS vulnerability exploited for phishing.
>
> ~ Ofer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Laudanski [mailto:zx_at_castlecops.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:52 AM
> To: bugtraq_at_securityfocus.com; vuln_at_secunia.com;
> webappsec_at_securityfocus.com
> Cc: reportphishing_at_antiphishing.org
> Subject: PayPal Phishing Site Exploits Google XSS Vulnerability
>
> There is a new PayPal phishing site that is crafty and cunning in
> attempting to hide its true address from the surfer. Unsuspecting users
> might fall for this devious trickery. It is thru a Google XSS attack
> that
> the phishing site uses to begin its lure and deception of the surfer.
> Read
> full details and watch the entire captured video of this scam here:
>
> http://castlecops.com/a6460-PayPal_Phishing_Site_Exploits_Google_XSS_Vul
> nerability.html
>
> ( short: http://castlecops.com/article-6460-nested-0-0.html )
>
> --
> Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security
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