How To: Phish for Social Media & Other Account Passwords with Blackeye

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Social media accounts are a favorite target for hackers, and the most effective tactics for attacking accounts on websites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are often based on phishing. These password-stealing attacks rely on tricking users into entering their passwords into a convincing fake webpage, and they have become increasingly easy to make thanks to tools like BlackEye.

BlackEye is a tool to rapidly generate phishing pages that target social media websites, making it much easier to phish targets of opportunity on the same network. After redirecting a target to the phishing page, it's easy to capture passwords to social media accounts harvested from unwitting victims.

BlackEye for Social Media Phishing
Users place a lot of trust in their social media accounts. If the victim doesn't have 2FA enabled, the ease with which an attacker can access them may be surprising. A single mistake typing a password into the wrong website can be all it takes to lose access to your account. BlackEye is a proof of concept that shows how these phishing pages don't need to be sophisticated or customized to work effectively.
BlackEye is a straightforward bash script that presents several templates to pick from, allowing you to select which social media website to emulate. From there, it creates a functional phishing site on your device, with the ability to be port forwarded or connected in other ways to your victim's machine.

Supported Social Media Sites
BlackEye supports 32 different websites with phishing templates, but these range in quality. It's best to test them out before deploying them because some suffer from flaws that could give them away if a user is paying attention. While the default phishing pages provided with BlackEye are pretty good, it's always useful to be able to modify them. That way, you can remove things like a copyright notice from the wrong year.
Among the more interesting websites that BlackEye supports are Protonmail, Github, Gitlab, Adobe, Verizon, Twitter, Facebook, Shopify, PayPal, and Google. You can test these quickly by following the steps below and clicking on the phishing URL to find out how realistic each template looks before using it.

What You'll Need
BlackEye is an extremely straightforward tool but works best on Kali Linux. That's because of the number of dependencies it relies on to run, but these can be installed as needed on Ubuntu or Debian devices. Once you have a Kali distro fully updated, you should be ready to install BlackEye.


1. Download & Test BlackEye
First, we'll need to clone the source from BlackEye's GitHub repository. To do that, open a new terminal window and type the following git and cd commands.


That should install the BlackEye repository and enable it to run it from the blackeye folder with the bash blackeye.sh command. When we run the command, we should see the splash screen below.


2. Adjust Phishing Websites
If we don't like something like an expired copyright notice, we can change it pretty easily. First, exit out of the bash script back into the blackeye folder. Then, we'll type ls to see the sites folder within the BlackEye repo.


We can navigate to it using the cd sites command. Then, type ls to see all of the phishing site templates available to modify.


To edit Protonmail, we can type cd protonmail and then ls again to see the files in that folder. You should see something like the files below.


To edit the HTML of the phishing page, you can do so directly by opening login.html with a text editor, allowing you to easily update any copyright notices or other details.

3. Serve Up the Phishing Page
To start our phishing page, open a terminal window and navigate to the blackeye folder again. Then, run the bash blackeye.sh command to get back to the phishing page selection menu. Here, we'll select eBay, which is number 18.


After entering the number of the site you wish to create, press enter. Next, we'll be asked to supply our IP address. If you press enter without adding one, it will try to add yours by default, but it doesn't always work. After supplying your IP address, you should see something like the prompt below.


Next, navigate to the phishing link in a browser to see the result of your phishing site.

4. Capture a Password When you open the site in a browser, it should look something like this:


Opening the link causes the script to report back on the type of devices currently accessing the phishing page.


Once the victim enters their credentials, they're redirected to the real eBay page, creating the illusion of a successful login.



On the hacker's side, BlackEye provides us with the credentials our victim just entered.


Just like that, we've intercepted and saved the credentials a victim entered into our phishing page!

Phishing Social Media Sites Is Fast & Easy
When it comes to stopping attacks like this, two-factor authentication is the average user's best friend. Without it, a single mistake can lead to your password being stolen and used to access your account by an attacker. So set up 2FA on Facebook, Instagram, and whatever other accounts you have.

Another step towards improving security is to use a hardware security key to require new devices to use your key to log in, rendering stolen passwords and even intercepted text messages useless. Keep in mind that while BlackEye makes phishing easy, it doesn't make it legal to steal passwords for accounts that you don't have permission to access.

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