Re: Using Twitter for Phishing Campaign / Spam / Followers?

[Cal Leeming <cal () foxwhisper co uk>]

This conceptual flaw exists in most web apps which have a "reset password by
email address" feature, as most will display an error if the email address
does not exist in their database.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Reverse Skills
<contact () reverseskills com>wrote:

> Simple and easy way to get a list of email accounts used on Twitter.
> For Phishing campaigns, custom Spam...
>
> Twitter has been notified and I suppose someday be fixed if they think
> there should be filtered.
>
> When you create a new Twitter account, the form requesting a mailing
> address. Twitter verify that the email account is not being used, but
> does not check any user token or limit the usage (captcha/block).
>
> https://twitter.com/signup ->
> http://twitter.com/users/email_available?email=
>
> We just need to automate it with a simple script , ***Everything you
> do will be your responsibility***
> -------------------
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys, json, urllib2, os
>
> f = urllib2.urlopen("http://twitter.com/users/email_available?email=
> "+sys.argv[1])
> data = json.load(f)
> def valid()
> ..
> Email has already been taken" in data ["msg"] <-- reply
> ..
> -------------------
>
> We just need a list of users to test.. for example :
> http://twitter.com/about/employees  (don't be evil is just an
> example!)
> Parsing the name/nickname and testing the {user}@twitter.com a few
> minutes later we have a list of ~ 400 valid internal email
> *@twitter.com. An attacker could probably.. a brute force attack
> (Google Apps), would send Phishing or try to exploit some browser bugs
> or similar. #Aurora #Google. Most of these e-mail are internal, not
> public..
> There are also some that make you think they are used to such
> A-Directory system users :
> ..
> apache () twitter com
> root () twitter com
> mail () twitter com
> ..
>
> But, if you download a database Rockyou / Singles.org / Gawker /
> Rootkit.com or just a typical dictionaries and domains will be quite
> easy to get hold of a list of users large enough (*@hotmail.com,
> *@gmail.com, etc).For example in my case I used to find user accounts
> in a pentest of a company that used Twitter. But probably not a good
> idea to allow unlimited access, a malicious user could use these user
> lists for Spam or Phishing.
>
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