Man In The Middle Attack Using Ettercap

Mr Terence Kevin who is one of my blog readers requested me to write an article on Ettercap. Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN (local area network ). It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. In this tutorial i will explain how to sniff (user names,passwords) in LAN using Ettercap

Man In The Middle Attack

The man-in-the-middle attack (also known as a bucket-brigade attack and abbreviated MITM) is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.

There are several kinds man in the middle attacks that we can perform, But in this tutorial we will see attacks based on the ARP protocol

ARP Poisoning :-

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing, also known as ARP flooding, ARP poisoning or ARP Poison Routing (APR), is a technique used to attack an Ethernet wired or wireless network. ARP Spoofing may allow an attacker to sniff data frames on a local area network (LAN), .

Man In The Middle Attack Using Ettercap

1. First download Ettercap From Here

2. After installation open Ettercap , select sniff mode and select your network interface as shown

3. Now scan for hosts in your sub net by going to Hosts ---> scan for hosts

4. Now open host list from hosts tab and select the IP address of the victim as target 1 and IP address of the router as target 2

5. Now start ARP poisoning by going to mitm ---> ARP Poisoning

6. Finally start the sniffer by going to start ---> start sniffing . Now if the victim logs into gmail , face book yahoo mail...etc .we will get his user name and password

Hope you Enjoyed the article, In my coming posts i will be writing about the countermeasures that you can take against ARP poisoning , MITM ..etc .Till then have a nice time

If you have any doubts please feel free to post a comment

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Anonymous

the rock says
thanks buddy

Er... If for example I am living in place B, and my target is in place C, How do I find out that person's IP address?

John ( Admin ) said on July 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM :

You can find Ip address by various ways i have written some tutorials on that

have a look at them
http://hackhaholic.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-hack-ip-address.html
http://hackhaholic.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-trace-ip-address-from-emails.html

is this process is work when the victum is in another city or state......???

rahul said on July 24, 2011 at 3:35 PM :

Is this method is works when the victum is in other city or state...??

John ( Admin ) said on July 24, 2011 at 9:39 PM :

@Anonymous

No this works only when computers are connected in LAN

IS there any procedure or tutorial when the victam computer is not a part of same LAN......!

John ( Admin ) said on July 28, 2011 at 12:58 AM :

@Anonymous

Ya you can achieve the same bydoing GRE tunnels , but ITS really complicated

can you tell me about the procedure....for Gre tunnels?

John ( Admin ) said on July 28, 2011 at 8:27 PM :

I'll write a Tut on that ASAP , or search your best friend google for GRE tunnels ,

THNX YOU JHON....I WAITTING FOR THAT...!

What version do I take?? I can't choose!!

when u r done wid gre tunnels tutorials.....?

Hey! I downloaded Ettercap NG-0.7.3 but it was only the source code!!! How do I Compile it??

John ( Admin ) said on August 1, 2011 at 7:57 PM :

@Anonymous

what OS are u using

@John

I am not using OS, I am using Windows 7 Laptop.

John ( Admin ) said on August 2, 2011 at 7:43 PM :

@Anonymous

OS means Operating systeam , so using windows 7 OS ..as far as i know Ettercap doesn't work with windows 7

John ( Admin ) said on August 5, 2011 at 5:28 AM :

@Anonymous

If ur so interested have look at the following link for a nice tutorial on "Cisco SNMP configuration attack with a GRE tunnel"
http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/cisco-snmp-configuration-attack-gre-tunnel

prabhu.don said on October 20, 2011 at 7:27 PM :

hello john brother..
you are doing a great job brother
i read all d articles
you rock !!

kai

does it still work,with all these sites using https and all?and why is that installer of ettercap opening in winrar? :O

Muhammed suhail said on February 28, 2012 at 10:27 AM :

Hello friends,
plz tell me how to hack facebook when the victim are not in same LAN,
your facebook freezing is not working

John ( Admin ) said on March 1, 2012 at 2:55 AM :

@Muhammed suhail

Best and the easy way would be to key log the victim , You can use the key-loggers provided by me >>>>>>>

http://www.101hacker.com/2011/05/sniperspy-keylogger-best-remote-spy.html

John ( Admin ) said on March 1, 2012 at 3:04 AM :

@kai

Yes this hack still works >>If Ur trying to do mitm attacks on (ssl) Https, u should additionally run sslstrip >> I will write a tut on that very shortly

How to download ettercap in backtrack 5 ?!?!!?!

Unknown said on May 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM :

dear John
it is not accepting etho as a network interface and give me option to select this "Realtek RTL8139 Family Fast Ethernet Adapter (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler)" so what should i do

Unknown said on October 20, 2012 at 5:11 AM :

Hi nice Post written by you guys. It is amazing and wonderful to visit your site. Thank a ton for such a nice post.

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Unknown said on November 13, 2012 at 8:13 AM :

Please update the download link above with the following link, as the one listed is currently down... http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

owk prashanth kumar said on November 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM :

in this arp poisoning, if no hosts are detected...does that mean v couldnt hear 2 anytng over the LAN?

owk prashanth kumar said on November 20, 2012 at 12:34 PM :

in this arp poisoning, if no hosts are detected...does that mean v couldnt hear 2 anytng over the LAN? Can this b worked out by manually giving the IP's into the targets?
btw itz a nice post..!!