Hacking ABSA

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henniebriel

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Hi all. This is all above board, I promise!!:)
I'm working on a script to log into ABSA (my own account), go through all the password processes and then download my monthly statement of my credit card and check account.
I'm getting stuck and need help.
Can anyone who has done this or want to try please tell me.

I'm using Linux (Kububtu) but I am more interested in the logic behind the approach than the actual software or scripting language being used.

Bye
Hennie
 
What protocol are you using to "log into ABSA" ?
 
my guess is you will have a problem with the random password letter check part of the process
 
Yeah there can be a solution, ABSA closing all your accounts and demanding full payment back :-)
 
henniebriel said:
Hi all. This is all above board, I promise!!:)
I'm working on a script to log into ABSA (my own account), go through all the password processes and then download my monthly statement of my credit card and check account.
I'm getting stuck and need help.
Can anyone who has done this or want to try please tell me.

I'm using Linux (Kububtu) but I am more interested in the logic behind the approach than the actual software or scripting language being used.

Bye
Hennie
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Sounds like you're a bit out of your depth. You would have to emulate keystrokes and mouse input....and use neural networks to do the OCR on the random char prompts. In short you will need some programming skills.
 
oh just a thought as well, try not use your real name and surname in your username when posting about hacking absa hehe

I'd check if you still even have access to your accounts manually ;p
 
eStatement

xrapidx said:
Why not ask them to email it to you daily? Its an option.
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I do see an eStatement option on the Absa page but its 'blanked out' on my business account login. It however works on my private account , whooohaaa
A friendly gentleman just informed me that it will soon be available for business accounts also.

I would still love a script as this 'eStatement' service only sends pdf docs as per their online info?:rolleyes:
 
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henniebriel said:
Hi all. This is all above board, I promise!!:)
I'm working on a script to log into ABSA (my own account), go through all the password processes and then download my monthly statement of my credit card and check account.
I'm getting stuck and need help.
Can anyone who has done this or want to try please tell me.

I'm using Linux (Kububtu) but I am more interested in the logic behind the approach than the actual software or scripting language being used.

Bye
Hennie
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Its called web scraping. It would probably go something like this:

  1. GET logon page
  2. POST logon details (it shouldn't be too hard to solve the random password letter part.. parse to find which blocks are red and do a lookup on your password)
  3. You'll recieve a response with a cookie, save cookie
  4. Get balances page with cookie
  5. Parse page and do what you want with it

I'm not sure where the random password letters fits in. If its a seperate page after [2], save the cookie on [2] then keep posting it with your requests.

WARNING: Check the terms and conditions of the site before doing this

HavocXphere said:
Sounds like you're a bit out of your depth. You would have to emulate keystrokes and mouse input....and use neural networks to do the OCR on the random char prompts. In short you will need some programming skills.
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lol :D


edit: just wanted to state that this has little to do with 'hacking'
 
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scripts

reech: I'm using plain old bash for my scripts.

Turbo_Aspiration: Thats my thoughts also but I'm getting stuck. Have you coded something along the way you described?
 
WARNING: Check the terms and conditions of the site before doing this

Go to Absa's website and click on 'Terms of Use' on the bottom.
I don't see any problem there.:)
 
henniebriel said:
reech: I'm using plain old bash for my scripts.

Turbo_Aspiration: Thats my thoughts also but I'm getting stuck. Have you coded something along the way you described?
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Haven't done a plain bash implementation.. closest to a scripting language I've come is PHP

I've also implemented a web scraper in Java.

For PHP I used the curl library and in Java I used HttpClient (Apache Commons).

Both were relatively easy to implement, especially HttpClient as it transparently handles cookies for you.
 
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Building a script to log into your own account isn't hacking. There's a chance they may have some arb terms & conditions saying it's not permitted, but they wouldn't actually even know it was a script and not you.
 
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