Forum Thread: An Intriguing Challenge

Hello everyone, I'm presented with a small challenge here.

Is there a way to tweak a Windows machine so that when www.example.com is entered into a browser, instead of redirecting to the ip of "www.example.com", the browser redirects to another chosen address? Thanks in advance.

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edit the hosts file of the machine if you have administrator privileges. If you do not, then escalate privileges and edit the file

EDIT Someone posted my answer just before I hit submit.

Thanks a lot for your help guys and happy hacking :D

...or you could try some DNS spoofing MitM. ;)

That actually ran through my mind, but I'm in a very specific situation and I'm kinda forced to use Metasploit through an SSH connection on my phone because I'm "supposed" to be at two places at the same time and I don't have my phone rooted so.. yeah, but thanks for the help anyway :D

You can do DNS spoofing on your phone...

But I don't have it rooted (correct me if root is not required) and I also need a fast solution so I figured I'll connect my phone with metasploit on my home pc through SSH, I've got another delivery method for the payload and I have most of it set and I think modifying the hosts file once I'm in is the optimal solution in this case. Normally I would go with a MitM attack but I'm in a situation where I don't really have that many options :D

Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, SSH should work.

Yes, you need to root your phone, but it's easy with this app.

I'll definitely get to that, thanks a lot.

Can you say Hosts file?

Everyone but me, apparently. :P

I'm not sure if I understand your question, but if you're asking for the hosts file location, Phoenix 750 already specified it, it's located in C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc. All credit goes to him :D

My fault I didn't even read the replies. Phoenix is on his game. ;-)

Does changing hosts file also redirect url that dont exist??

Lets say something.com is not registered.. ie... it is not a website... so writing 192.168.x.x something.com in hosts file will it still redirect??

I haven't tested that out, but it should work, I don't see why not, you can try to do it using the same syntax as for the existing websites. Let us know if it works.

Lol that was just a question... ill probably forget about it by morning... but you gotra clear the doubts eh?? Maybe ill get some use of it later... anyway thnx!!

PS. Might work as a great prank on a friend loll.. be creative ;);)

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