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CSWSH and Content Stealing

web-tech-websockets | Level: Easy  | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab

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In this lab, a WebSocket based web application is running on the target server. It uses secure WebSocket (WebSocket over TLS) without any handshake based authentication. However, it only returns the flag when a secret token is passed to it through WebSocketAnother client machine present on the same network connects to the web application periodically and exchange the secret information. 

As an attacker, you have already corrupted the ARP cache of the client machine. So, instead of connecting to the target server, the client machine now tries to connect to the attacker Kali machine when it looks for the web application.

In this scenario, the attacker can perform Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking (CSWSH) by embedding the WebSocket of the target web application in a locally hosted webpage. Still, in order to get the content posted and received from WebSocket, the attacker has to use Javascript-based hooks using wshook library.


Objective: Perform CSWSH and JavaScript hooking on the client machine to retrieve the flag! 


Guidelines:

  • The web application can be accessed at "target-1".
  • Source code of wshook library is kept in /root/Desktop/tools/wshook directory.
  • Client machine makes HTTP requests on port 80 of Kali machine periodically.


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1. Flag
 

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