A Flash In The Pan

UO!PanFlash!Flash

  03 December 2006

Description

Pointing to a Flash animation whose only purpose is to redirect to the real spam/phish site. Probably done to avoid phishing detection that relies on finding links that say they are going to one place, but actually go to another.

Submitted by Nick FitzGerald via an anonymous CastleCops reporter.

Example

<A href="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p87/tractors200/as.swf" target=_blank rel=nofollow _> <IMG height=32 alt="Respond Now" src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/buttons/btnRespondNow.gif" width=120 border=0></A>

which actually redirects to:

http://www.ess-access.com/Signin.eBay.com.ws.eBayISAPI.dslSignInco.partnerId.
pUserId.siteid.pageType.pa1.i1.BshowGif.UsingSSL.https.ebay.com.pa2.errmsg.
runame.ruparams.ruproduct.sid.confirm5.htm

Poll

Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?
I use the same password for all sites
I have a number of passwords but use the same for some sites
I use a different password for each site
I don't sign up to any sites that require a password

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