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312-50V11 · Question #1038

Sophia is a shopping enthusiast who spends significant time searching for trendy outfits online. Clark, an attacker, noticed her activities several times and sent a fake email containing a deceptive…

The correct answer is C. Evilginx. Evilginx is a man-in-the-middle phishing framework used to build spoofed pages and craft deceptive emails to harvest victim credentials.

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Question

Sophia is a shopping enthusiast who spends significant time searching for trendy outfits online. Clark, an attacker, noticed her activities several times and sent a fake email containing a deceptive page link to her social media page displaying all-new and trendy outfits. In excitement, Sophia clicked on the malicious link and logged in to that page using her valid credentials. Which of the following tools is employed by Clark to create the spoofed email?

Options

  • APyLoris
  • BSlowloris
  • CEvilginx
  • DPLCinject

How the community answered

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  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    92% (47)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

Evilginx is a man-in-the-middle phishing framework used to build spoofed pages and craft deceptive emails to harvest victim credentials.

APyLoris

PyLoris is a denial-of-service testing tool that exploits slow or incomplete HTTP requests to exhaust server thread and connection resources, and has no capability to create phishing emails or spoofed login pages.

BSlowloris

Slowloris is a Layer 7 DoS attack tool that keeps many simultaneous HTTP connections open to a target server to exhaust its connection pool, and is unrelated to phishing or credential harvesting.

CEvilginxCorrect

Evilginx is an advanced adversary-in-the-middle phishing framework that operates as a reverse proxy, allowing an attacker to serve convincing clones of legitimate websites and deliver malicious links via spoofed emails. It captures not only plaintext credentials but also authenticated session cookies, enabling account takeover even when multi-factor authentication is in place. This directly matches the scenario where Clark sent Sophia a fake email with a deceptive page link that stole her login credentials.

DPLCinject

PLCinject is a tool designed to inject malicious code into Programmable Logic Controllers used in industrial control systems, and has no relevance to email spoofing or web-based phishing attacks.

Concept tested: Credential phishing using Evilginx adversary-in-the-middle framework

Source: https://help.evilginx.com/docs/intro

Topics

#Evilginx#phishing#credential harvesting#spoofed email

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