This was built to snoop a backdoored extension's activity.
Simply run with docker compose up -d --scale snooper=<number of snoopers>. Running multiple snoopers maximises the chance of receiving interesting commands from the C2.
Check logs in the ./logs directory, or run docker compose logs -f to tail output live
The culprit extension is lnebjgioddkafaldaaeooeghlcholnnp: Find website used fonts.
Two days after installation the extension initiates a persistent background websocket connection to wss://ext.hanaila[.]com/ws/. The code responsible for this is in javascripts/background.js. After initial connection and sending some of the victim's metadata, the infected host then listens for commands from the C2.
I created this project to listen in on the commands being sent to infected hosts to understand what the purpose of this backdoor is.
Initial findings suggest that this extension is being used as a botnet to piggyback off of infected clients to proxy web requests.
The C2 sends a message like this and expects the infected client to retrieve the contents of the url and return them in the response payload:
{
"action": "request",
"url": "https://stackoverflow.com/",
"headers": {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0.14393......"
},
"browser": "tcp",
"incognito": "true"
}Disparate user agents and urls across these request payloads suggest these are coming from many different clients (or one client that is randomising their user agent and doing lots of different kinds of browsing). One working theory is that this is backend infrastructure for a morally questionable proxy service.
One consistency among all infected hosts are periodic requests from the C2 to visit api.ipgeolocation[.]io with a hardcoded, consistent API key across infected users. The API key is 04121b22f4244f55a04a496edcc8fd9a. This API key is potentially owned by the threat actor.
ext.hanaila[.]com
wss://ext.hanaila[.]com/ws/
https://https://api.ipgeolocation[.].io/ipgeo?apiKey=04121b22f4244f55a04a496edcc8fd9a&include=hostname,security,useragent&ip=<some_ip>