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Will You Put Your Password in a Survey?

Published: 2020-03-05. Last Updated: 2020-03-05 06:40:00 UTC
by Xavier Mertens (Version: 1)
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Thanks to one of our readers who submitted this interesting piece of phishing. Personally, I was not aware of this technique which is interesting to bypass common anti-spam filter and reputation systems. The idea is to create a fake survey on a well-known online service.

In this case, the attacker used surveygizmo.com[1] which offers you to build an online presence for surveys or feedback forms. Most of these websites are paid services but offer free trials. Enough to build a phishing campaign.

The generated link is sent to the victim as usual with some social engineering. Here is an example of the link:

hxxps://www[.]surveygizmo[.]com/s3/5485786/Invoice-4982550

The landing page looks like this:

(Note the typo "your o email")

And, once you provided your credentials, the survey immediately ends with this screen:

The attacker just needs to login on his account to access data submitted by victims… You don’t need to deploy or hack a server to host the phishing page, you just use free resources provided by a cloud service. Pretty clever… And, if you’re ready to pay a small fee, you can even build self-branded surveys to increase the chances to lure victims.

[1] https://www.surveygizmo.com/

Xavier Mertens (@xme)
Senior ISC Handler - Freelance Cyber Security Consultant
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Hello,
Why not reporting these bad sites?
It's not the first time I find bad ones which are not reported.
Keep up the good job!
Thanks a lot,

reportphishing@antiphishing.org
reportphishing@apwg.org
spoof@millersmiles.co.uk
submit@emsisoft.com
https://www.phishtank.com

https://www.virustotal.com/
https://urlscan.io/

https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url
https://analysis.avira.com/fr/submit
http://trafficlight.bitdefender.com/info?url=TYPE_URL_HERE

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