🎯 Flask Educational Login Page – Credential Capture Simulation

⚠️ Legal Disclaimer

This project is strictly for educational and ethical testing purposes only.
It is intended to help developers, penetration testers, and security researchers understand how phishing works so they can protect users from real-world attacks.
Any unauthorized, malicious, or illegal use of this project is strictly prohibited.
The author is not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this tool.

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📚 About This Project

This is a simple Flask-based web application that simulates a fake login page.
It accepts user credentials (username and password) and writes them to a local file (credentials.txt).
The primary goal is to raise awareness about phishing risks and help improve defensive strategies through ethical demonstrations.

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🧠 Educational Use Cases

• Security awareness training
• Ethical hacking demonstrations
• Capture-the-flag (CTF) exercises
• Simulated phishing tests in controlled environments

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📁 Project Structure

• static/ – Contains static assets like CSS, JS, and images
• templates/ – Includes the index.html file for the fake login UI
• app.py – Flask backend logic
• credentials.txt – Stores submitted usernames and passwords
• requirements.txt – Python dependencies
• README.md – This file

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🚀 How to Run

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/educational-login-sim.git
cd educational-login-sim


## 2. Set Up a Virtual Environment (Recommended)

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

## 3. Install Dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt


## 4. Start the Flask Server
python app.py


### 🛠 Technologies Used
Python 3

Flask Web Framework

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

JSON APIs

Local text file logging


### 📜 License
This project is licensed under the MIT License – feel free to use, modify, and distribute with attribution.