Performing DNS spoofing and redirecting traffic
DNS spoofing is an attack in which the person carrying out the MITM attack uses it to change the name resolution in the DNS server's response to the victim, sending them to a malicious page instead of to the one they requested while still using the legitimate name.
In this recipe, we will use Ettercap to perform a DNS spoofing attack and make the victim visit our site when they really wanted to visit a different site.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will use our Windows client virtual machine but this time with the network adapter bridged to consult DNS resolution. Its IP address in this recipe will be 192.168.71.14.
The attacking machine will be our Kali Linux machine with the IP address 192.168.71.8. ...
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