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Steak ——An advanced XSS exploitation tool
Steak is an advanced XSS exploitation tool built for skilled professional penetration testers and red teams. With Steak, you can customize and automate every step of exploitation by building your own "project script" to perform several advanced attacks.
Want to create a fake Flash update but don't want victims installed your trojan still see the pop-up window? A piece of cake! We can receive external events from Cobalt Strike or Metasploit to stop the attack at the right time!
Doing pentest in a highly adversarial environment and don't want to be caught by analysts? Elementary! We can detect users using proxy or incognito window and replace original malicious javascript into a normal harmless javascript file!
More over, our Steak-XSS framework is easy-to-extend to hack in the way you like. The only limit is your imagination.
Having an 0day exploit on a router and would like to triger it via CSRF? Pretty easy! Just build a module and fire to the victim!
Using your internal-use secret RAT other than MSF or CS but still want Steak to intereact with it? Not a problem! Implement an event handler to receive information from the RAT or any other tools you like!
This is a new project and it might not be perfect. We welcome your issues or pull requests to imporve Steak together.
You can use pip to install Steak easily. Using command below:
pip install steak-xss
Or you can clone our code and run:
python setup.py install
If you don't wanna install Steak into your Python site-packages
folder, you can just download the steak
folder and put your project file as below:
- run.py
- Project.py
- Steak
- core
...
Steak needs at least two files to run. There are demo files in examples
folder. You can read them and you will know how to use Steak easily.
run.py
contains Handler and Project loading code. You can load more than one project when you are starting a single Steak server. You also needs to load Handers you are about to use in this file.
DemoProject.py
contains your own attack ways of a project. We identify clients from JavaScript url it requests. Different JavaScript url will lead to different Projects. In this file, you must inherit class Project
to implement your own project. You just need to overwrite attack_client
function to do your own job. In this function, you can load modules in Steak or wrriten by yourself. Then send payload to client to get result.
Alert Moudle can run alert
command in client browser.
Demo Usage:
alert=self.load_module('Alert',content='Hello World')
Parameters:
Content: Alert Content
Consolelog Moudle can run console.log command in client browser.
Demo Usage:
alert=self.load_module('Consolelog',content='Hello World')
Parameters:
Content: Consolelog Content
Steak will read modules in steak/modules
folder. Each module has its own subfolder whose name is module name.This module name must be same with class name and python file name in this subfolder.
You must inherit Modules
class when you are implementing your own module.
You need to return a Payload
object in your own __init__
function. You can also use __init__
function implemented by us. This function will use command.js
in the same subfolder. It will replace Steak tag with information users input. For example, in Alert Module , our command.js
is below:
alert('<steak>content</steak>');
sendDataBack({'status':'done'},'<steak>taskid</steak>')
Specially, you must use sendDataBack
to send your running result in javascript. sendDataBack
receives taskid
as another parameter. This will be filled automatically when Steak send payload to client. You just need to use <steak>taskid</steak>
to symbol it.
Handlers can be used to receive outside information such as online information from MSF.
We implemented two Handlers inside Steak.
You can load it in run.py
using code below:
steak.add_handler("MetasploitHandler",password="demo",port=55552,ssl=False)
This handler is a wrap of pymetasploit3
, you need to start your msfrpc
service before using.
When a new client is online in MSF, this handler will call on_metasploithandler
of every project.
You can load it in run.py
using code below:
steak.add_handler("CobaltStrikeHandler",listenonpath='/cobaltstrikecallback',password='demo')
This handler needs you to run a cna
script in your CobalStrike teamserver. You can use agscript
to run it.
We provided a cobaltstrike.cna
file in handler
folder. You need to modify callback path and password in it. These settings must be the same with setting you add this handler in Steak.
When a new client is online in CS, cna
script will request listenonpath opened in Steak server and this Handler will call on_cobaltstrikehandler
of every project.
Steak will read handlers in steak/handlers
folder. Each handler has its own py file whose name is handler name.
You must inherit Handlers
class when you are implementing your own handler.
You just need to overwrite generate_event
function to implement your own communication functions in standard Python code. Steak will start a new thread to call this function. Importantly, this function should return only when an external event happened. If you have one or more parameters that you need to return to callback function, you can just use it as the return value of generate_event
function. When you return, Steak will call on_{your handler name}
function in every project if exists automatically.
Moreover, you can also use Steak server as the source of your message. You need to use code below to register a path in Steak server. When there is a request in this path, Steak server will call callback function you give and pass you a Request object in Flask.
self.steak.server.register_path(self.lisenonpath,self.callback_registedpath)
FAQs
An advanced XSS exploitation tool
We found that steak-xss demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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