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Made a fake login prompt to steal teacher’s credentialsVenue: 2nd year in engineering, data structure and algorithm lab exam.This is how lab exams are conducted in my college:Teachers make only 5 or 6 programming assignments. then they make about 10 xerox copies of each assignment. so that total number of assignment sheets are about 50 or 60. (Enough to cover the whole class)They shuffle all the papers, every student need to draw one paper from the pile.The student need to sit in a computer and complete the programming assignment. After it’s done the student need to make a zip file of the code along with his/her roll number.The teacher comes and accesses a remote shared drive and copies the zip file there.Later, when the exam is over, The teacher will check the codes from the shared folder to evaluate the students.The students does not have access to the shared folder. When the teacher double clicks on the shared drive, it asks for passwords. The login prompt looks like something similar to this:I was pretty good at Visual Basic at that time, I could build almost anything given ample time.However, the Lab exam was in C, which I never liked much, especially due to the lack of UI development scope.I decided that I will cheat using Phishing.I made a small stand alone windows application EXE file with Visual basic. When double clicked, it opens a window which looks exactly like the login prompt of the Windows security.It’s pretty easy to develop. Just a small Form, two text boxes, two buttons and some images and Labels, that’s it. When the OK button is clicked, instead of logging in, it saves both the username and password in a hidden TXT file.After the password is logged in the TXT file, my fake code shows an error message like:I could build one such application in less then 10–15 minutes.I took special care to ensure the dimension and look&Feel of the fake window matches with the original. I used the original icons by cropping it from screenshots, I also used color picker tools to carefully match the colors with 100% accuracy.Now one problem, How do I take the EXE file to my Lab? CD/DVD, Floppy and USB drives are disabled in the lab. However, they are allowed in Library, so I copied the file in one of the library computer and made a shared folder inside it. Noting down the IP of the computer so that I can access it from the Lab. Problem solved!Now in the lab I tried my best to solve my assignment, It was a complex binary tree sorting algorithm problem. I could not make it run successfully as programming C was never my forte.30 minutes before the exam completes, a lot of genius students who were expert in C, had already submitted their codes. and the teacher already pushed them in the shared drive with his credential.Time for some cheating!I double clicked my EXE file, the fake login window opened.I called the teacher :“Sir my exam is complete, Please upload my code to your shared area”He came, and typed his password in the fake form, as expected he got the Incorrect password message.He closed the popup, then double clicked on the shared drive again, thinking that he must have mis-typed his password for the first time.This time the genuine login prompt came, he logged in and copied my code in shared drive. Then he closed the shared drive, asked me to shut down the computer and leave the Lab.Then he returned to his desk.Before shutting down, I opened the text file and noted down his password! Before leaving the lab, I also deleted my EXE file.Next step: I ran into library and accessed the teacher’s shared drive with the stolen password.A lot of zipped codes are there which had just been submitted by other students.I know that since the number of question set is only 5 or 6, so there should be many students who got the same question as mine. After searching for several minutes, I found one zip file with exact match and guess what, the code runs too!I copied the code, made some changes in the comments, and replaced my code with that.Voila! Good marks in Lab assignment !Update:Some friends have asked how did I develop the application. It was almost 10 years back so I don’t have the code. Also Visual basic 6 is obsolete now, But there are lots of tutorials of C# which is just as useful. this is one example from youtube.Some friends have suggested why didn’t I use a keylogger. The lab computers were secured with norton antivirus which does not let keyloggers run in the background unless you whitelist them from Administrator account. A stand alone EXE is better suited for the job. I did not know if a portable keylogger existed back then. I had only Adramax keylogger which does not run parallely with norton.

I have just completed my first semester at IIT Roorkee which started on July 21 , 2016. The amount of hard work and study IITians need to do to get good grades is somewhat related to their respective branches. But in first year , since most of the courses are similar, it does not play a big role.Now coming to our daily schedule. The official timing for classes is 8 a.m to 6 p.m from Monday to Friday. There are breaks of two or three hours in between and a one hour lunch break. On an average , per week we have nearly 22 hours of classes including two hours of practical and 3 hours of tutorial classes. But these breaks in between the classes are of no use as most of the time is wasted with friends on the way to hostel and back to classes. Initially at the start of the semester the attendance is very high but as time passes bunking classes becomes quiet common.Moreover, in first year students are supposed to enrolled in either NSS , NCC or NSO. These activities require nearly four to six hours of time every week. Apart from this , there are n number of campus activities taking place each day including guest lectures and various cultural and technical group meetings. Now , at the end of the day , after the dinner IITians finally get time to study.But wait a minute..….Everyone owns a laptop and each room has a LAN connection to provide unlimited superfast free internet. I hope you got what I am trying to say.So the answer to the first part of you question is that an average IITian does not study everyday. We have a mid-sem and an end-sem exam for academic evaluation and usually people start studying nearly one or two weeks before the exams. Rest of the time is spent in attending classes , watching movies and in other campus activities.So , IITians get a lot and lot of free time except in the exam weeks.