Neto - A Tool To Analyse Browser Extensions
Project Neto is a Python 3 package conceived to analyse and unravel hidden features of browser plugins and extensions for well-known browsers such as Firefox and Chrome. It automates the process of unzipping the packaged files to extract these features from relevant resources in a extension like
manifest.json
, localization folders or Javascript and HTML source files.Installation
To install the package, the user can choose
pip3
.pip3 install -e . --user
Optionally, it can also be installed with administrator privileges using sudo
:sudo pip3 install -e .
A successfull installation can be checked using:python3 -c "import neto; print(neto.__version__)"
Quick Start
To perform the analysis of an extension, the analyst can type the following:
neto analysis -u https://yoururl.com/extension-name.xpi
The extension will be automatically downloaded and unzipped by default in the system's temporal folder.However, the analyst can also launch de analysis towards a locally stored extension:
neto analysis -e ./my-extension-name.xpi
After the static analysis is performed, it will generate a Json file that is stored by default in a newly created folder named output
.If you use Python, you can also import the package as a library in your own Python modules:
>>> from neto.lib.extensions import Extension
>>> my_extension = Extension ("./sample.xpi")
>>> my_extension.filename
'adblock_for_firefox-3.8.0-an+fx.xpi'
>>> my_extension.digest
'849ec142a8203da194a73e773bda287fe0e830e4ea59b501002ee05121b85a2b'
Apart from accesing to the elements found in the extension using properties, the analyst can always have access to it as a dictionary:>>> my_extension.__dict__
{'_analyser_version': '0.0.1', '_digest': '849ec142a8203da194a73e773bda287fe0e830e4ea59b501002ee05121b85a2b'…
If you are not using Python, you can use the JSON RPC daemon:$ neto daemon
____ _ _ _ _ _
| _ \ _ __ ___ (_) ___ ___| |_ | \ | | ___| |_ ___
| |_) | '__/ _ \| |/ _ \/ __| __| | \| |/ _ \ __/ _ \
| __/| | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ | |\ | __/ || (_) |
|_| |_| \___// |\___|\___|\__| |_| \_|\___|\__\___/
|__/
Developed by @ElevenPaths
Version: 0.5.0b
* Running on http://localhost:14041/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
You can then run commands using your preferred JSON RPC library to write a client (we have written a short demo in the bin
folder) or even curl
: curl --data-binary '{"id":0, "method":"remote", "params":["https://example.com/myextension.xpi"], "jsonrpc": "2.0"}' -H 'content-type:text/json;' http://localhost:14041
Features
The following is a non-exhaustive list of the features included in this package are the following:
- Manifest analysis.
- Internal file hashing.
- Entities extraction using regular expressions: IPv4, email, cryptocurrency addresses, URL, etc.
- Comments extraction from HTML, CSS and JS files.
- Cryptojacking detection engine based on known mining domains and expressions.
- Suspicious Javascript code detection such as
eval()
. - Certificate analysis if provided.
- Batch analysis of previously downloaded extensions.
Neto - A Tool To Analyse Browser Extensions
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