Helpful Frame or Harmful?

About this interactive

What you are doing: deciding whether each embedded frame is a legitimate use or a malicious one. A frame shows content from another page inside a page. Used normally, it embeds things like a video, a map, a widget or a report. Abused, the same feature hides hostile code on a site the attacker broke into, carries malware through an ad slot, or wraps a real site inside a fake one so the attacker can watch and capture what users type. How to use it: ask what the frame is doing. Showing ordinary content, or hiding code and capturing what users enter?

What you'll learn

Tell a legitimate use of an embedded frame from a malicious one, where a frame hides hostile code or wraps a real site to capture what users enter

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

2.4 Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activity.

Key terms

Iframe: An HTML element that embeds content from another webpage or source within a webpage, which can be exploited to inject malicious content or create deceptive spoofed sites.
Malvertising: A cyberattack technique that injects malicious code into legitimate online advertising networks to distribute malware to users visiting otherwise trusted websites.
Man-in-the-Middle Attack: An attack where an adversary secretly intercepts and potentially alters communications between two parties.
Spoofing: An attack where an adversary impersonates a trusted entity by falsifying data such as an IP address or email address.

Topics

Iframe Malvertising Interactive Streak Sort

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