Browser Exploitation Framework

The Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) is a powerful professional security tool. BeEF is pioneering techniques that provide the experienced penetration tester with practical client side attack vectors.

Unlike other security frameworks, BeEF focuses on leveraging browser vulnerabilities to assess the security posture of a target. This project is developed solely for lawful research and penetration testing.

BeEF hooks one or more web browsers as beachheads for the launching of directed command modules. Each browser is likely to be within a different security context, and each context may provide a set of unique attack vectors.

Notable Features

BeEF provides an easily integratable framework that demonstrates the impact of browser and Cross-site Scripting issues in real-time. Development has focused on creating a modular framework. This has made module development a very quick and simple process.

§  Browser exploitation modules

§  Keystroke logging

§  Browser proxying

§  Integration with Metasploit via XML-RPC

§  Plugin detection

§  Intranet service exploitation

§  Tor detection

§  Browser functionality detection modules

BeEF
Developer(s)	Wade Alcorn and others
Stable release	0.4.2.7 / July 10, 2011
Development status	Active
Written in	Ruby/JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Security
License	AGPL
Website	http://beefproject.com/

What is BeEF?

BeEF 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.