# Broken-Link Hijacking

### Steps

1. Manually find and click external links on the target site ( For Example:- Some Links to Social Media Accounts or Some external Media Link)
2. While Doing Manual work also put [broken-link-checker](https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker) in background using below Command interminal.

   `blc -rof --filter-level 3 https://example.com/`

   Ouput will be like Something.

   `─BROKEN─ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ACME-inc-/ (HTTP_999)`
3. Now you need to check if company has the page or not , if no then register as the company or try to get that username or url.

### Alternate Step

1. Go to [Online Broken Link Checker](https://ahrefs.com/broken-link-checker), [Dead Link Checker](https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/) Or [Alternative Online Broken Link Checker](https://brokenlinkcheck.com/)
2. Input the domain name

### Reference

* <https://edoverflow.com/2017/broken-link-hijacking/>
* <https://medium.com/@bathinivijaysimhareddy/how-i-takeover-the-companys-linkedin-page-790c9ed2b04d>

#### Author:

* [@KathanP19](https://twitter.com/KathanP19)
* [@cyph3r\_asr](https://twitter.com/cyph3r_asr)
* [@v3daxt](https://twitter.com/v3daxt)