Hacking Password Protected Sites

There are many ways to defeat java-script protected websites. S ome are very simplistic, such as hitting "ctl-alt-del" when the password box is displayed, to simply turning offjava capability, which will dump you into t he default page.

You can try manually searching for other directories, by typing the directory name into the url address box of yourbrowser, ie: If you want access to "www.target.com" . Try typing "www.target.com/images" .(almost ever y web site has an imagesdirectory) This will put you into the images directory, and give you a text list of all the images located there. Often, the title of an image will give you a clue to the name of another directory.
ie: in "www.target.com/images", there is a .gif named gamestitle. "gif" .

There is a g ood chance then, that there is a 'games' directory on the site, so you would then type in "www.target.com/games" , and if it isa valid directory, you again get a text listing of all thefiles available there.

For a more automated approach, use a program like WEB SNAKE from anawave , or Web Wacker. These programs will create a mirror image of an entire web site, showing all directories , or even mirror a complete server. They are indispensable for locating hidden files and directories.

What do you do if you can't get past an opening "PasswordRequired" box?

First do an WHOIS Lookup for the site. In our example, "www.target.com" . We find it's hosted by www.host.com at 100.100.100. 1.
We then go to 100.100.100.1, and then launch "Web Snake" , and mirror the entire server. Set Web Snake to NOT download anything over about 20K. (not ma ny HTML pages are bigger than this) This speeds things up some, and keeps yo u from getting a lot of files and images you don't care about. This can take a long time , so consider running it right before bed time.

Once you have an image of the entire server, you look throughthe directories listed , and find /target. When we open that directory, we find its contents, and all of its sub-directories listed. Let's say we find /target/games/zip/zipindex.html . This would be the index page that would be displayed had you gone through the password procedure, and allowed it to redirect you here . By simply typ ing in the url "www.target.com/games/zip/zipindex.html" you will be onthe index page and ready to follow the links for downloading.

This is only for education purpose.....