Offensive Security Tool: BeeF Framework

by | Dec 29, 2019 | Tools

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Offensive Security Tool: BeeF Framework

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When hackers gain access to an internal network, it does not mean they got what they want, shell is just the beginning, with a series of internal attacks, or techniques like: injecting a beef hook into an email body, combined with a targetted phishing attack, or a website, or clickjacking links, they could immediately realtime escalate this into a shell and meterpreter session, in few words hijacking the browser tab to get into your system, and much more things can be done using BeeF, especially when integrated with a setup like Metasploit with BeeF, and a phishing campaign tool simultaneously in addition to social engineering attacks that has built in.

BeEF by Wade Alcorn is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser.

Amid growing concerns about web-borne attacks against clients, including mobile clients, BeEF allows the professional penetration tester to assess the actual security posture of a target environment by using client-side attack vectors. Unlike other security frameworks, BeEF looks past the hardened network perimeter and client system, and examines exploitability within the context of the one open door: the web browser. BeEF will hook one or more web browsers and use them as beachheads for launching directed command modules and further attacks against the system from within the browser context.

Get Involved

You can get in touch with the BeEF team. Just check out the following:

Please, send us pull requests!

Web: https://beefproject.com/

Bugs: https://github.com/beefproject/beef/issues

Security Bugs: [email protected]

IRC: ircs://irc.freenode.net/beefproject

Twitter: @beefproject

Requirements

Operating System: Mac OSX 10.5.0 or higher / modern Linux. Note: Windows is not supported.
Ruby: 2.5 or newer
SQLite: 3.x
Node.js: 6 or newer
The gems listed in the Gemfile: https://github.com/beefproject/beef/blob/master/Gemfile
Selenium is required on OSX: brew install selenium-server-standalone (See https://github.com/shvets/selenium)

ActiveRecord

ActiveRecord was used to replace DataMapper, and now ruby 2.4 is no longer supported. If you’re using ruby 2.4 please update your BeEF version, otherwise master-0.4.7.3 has the beef branch before the ActiveRecord Merge.