Captain Marvellous JavaScript - A look at how hackers use JS

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Captain Marvellous JavaScript - A look at how hackers use JS

Submitted Apr 21, 2019

Technical level: Beginner

The modern web would be grossly incomplete without JavaScript. While the dev world is using JS to build more user friendly, experience rich, responsive and fast web applications, hackers have been using JavaScript on a parallel trail using the same programming principles as the devs to break implmentations, attack users and servers alike.

In this very “informally fun” (TM) talk, filled with examples and demos, we will see how hackers (mis)use the constructs available within JavaScript/ECMAScript to go beyond XSS and automate vulnerability discovery, attack seemingly secure endpoints, exploit weaknesses in implementation and break user trust for profit and for fun.

The key takeways for attendees from this talk would be:
- Understanding how attackers see and use JavaScript
- Introduction to attacks and techniques/usage of JS beyond the standard XSS
- How JavaScript can be used as a powerful weapon in discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities

Outline

Introduction to the talk
JavaScript and XSS: Is that it?
- Why is XSS bad anyways?
- I’ve Got No BeEF With You
  - Demo of a real world account and browser compromise
Going beyond it’s supposed application
Using JavaScript to Fuzz browsers
- JS fuzzing engines
- Browser crashes and the $$$
Server Side JS attacks
- The perils of insecure templating
- Server Side JS injection
  - Remote Code Execution
Client Side JS Attacks
- What’s that in my DOM?
- Mixing Desktop Clients and JavaScript (WCGW)
  - Case Study of
    - Code Execution using JavaScript in a Desktop Client
    - Data Theft via a insecure Express app on a Desktop Client
    - Windows Privilege Escalation using JavaScript in a Desktop Client
Breaking filters and Web Application Firewalls
- JS weirdness
- Twisted XSS payloads
Malware writers, JavaScript and obfuscation
- Case Study 1
- Case Study 2
Session Hijacking using ActionScript and Flash
- Weaponising ActionScript for account takeovers
Mutation XSS
- Abusing browsers’ code normalisation against them
JavaScript Steganography
- Stega whaa?
  - Working with Alpha Channels in images
  - Hidden in PlainSight
iOT, JavaScript and a friendly home router
- Attacking NodeJS servers on exposed iOT devices
- What could go wrong you say!
Closing notes
The End / Q&A

Requirements

Projector
Enthusiastic Audience

Speaker bio

Riyaz Walikar currently heads the Offensive Security Team at Appsecco and is responsible for the assessment and delivery of Web and Mobile Application Security Testing engagements. He is a OSCP certified Web Application Pentester, security evangelist and researcher. He has been active in the security community for the better part of the last 10 years. He has been actively involved with the Bangalore OWASP and null chapter for the last 7 years and is one of the OWASP Bangalore chapter leads.

He is actively involved with Vulnerability Research in popular Web Applications and Network aware services and has disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, Joomla!, EJabberd and has had luck with finding vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cisco, Symantec, Mozilla, PayPal, Ebay, Apigee, Yahoo, Adobe, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. for which he is on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. He has also been a speaker and trainer at several security conferences.

JSFoo Coimbatore 2019