Hyperfox is a security auditing tool that proxies and records HTTP and HTTPS traffic between two points.

You can install the latest version of hyperfox to /usr/local/bin with the following command (requires admin privileges):

curl -sL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/malfunkt/hyperfox/master/install.sh' | sh

If you'd rather not accept free candy from this van you can also grab a release from our releases page and install it manually.

In order to build hyperfox from source you'll need Go and a C compiler:

Use go install to build and install hyperfox:

go install github.com/malfunkt/hyperfox

Hyperfox creates a transparent HTTP proxy server and binds it to port 1080/TCP on localhost (-addr 127.0.0.1 -http 1080). The proxy server reads plaintext HTTP requests and redirects them to the target destination (the Host header is used to identify the destination), when the target destination replies, Hyperfox intercepts the response and forwards it to the original client.

All HTTP communications between origin and destination are intercepted by Hyperfox and recorded on a SQLite database that is created automatically. Everytime Hyperfox starts, a new database is created (e.g.: hyperfox-00123.db). You can change this behaviour by explicitly providing a database name (e.g.: -db traffic-log.db).

Launch Hyperfox with default configuration:

hyperfox

use cURL to request any HTTP page, the -x parameter tells cURL to use hyperfox as proxy:

curl -x http://127.0.0.1:1080 example.com

you should be able to see a log for the page you requested in Hyperfox's output:

...
127.0.0.1:44254 - - [11/Apr/2020:19:19:48 -0500] "GET http://example.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -1

Use the -ui parameter to enable Hyperfox UI wich will open in a new browser window:

hyperfox -db records.db -ui

The above command creates a web server that binds to 127.0.0.1:1984. If you'd like to change the bind address or port use the -ui-addr switch:

hyperfox -db records.db -ui -ui-addr 127.0.0.1:3000

Changing the UI server address is specially useful when Hyperfox is running on a remote or headless host and you'd like to see the UI from another host.

Enabling the UI also enables a minimal REST API (at 127.0.0.1:4891) that is consumed by the front-end application.

Please note that Hyperfox's REST API is only protected by a randomly generated key that changes everytime Hyperfox starts, depending on your use case this might not be adecuate.

When the -ui-addrparameter is different from 127.0.0.1 Hyperfox will output a QR code to make it easier to connect from mobile devices:

hyperfox -db records.db -ui -ui-addr 192.168.1.23:1984

SSL/TLS connections are secure end to end and protected from eavesdropping. Hyperfox won't be able to see anything happening between a client and a secure destination. This is only valid as long as the chain of trust remains untouched.

Let's suppose that the client trusts a root CA certificate that is known by Hyperfox, if that happens Hyperfox will be able to issue certificates that are going to be trusted by the client.

Examples of such bogus root CA files be found here:

• Hyperfox CA cert
• Hyperfox CA key

you can also generate your own root CA certificate and key.

There are a number of ways to install root CA certificates, depending on your operating system.

This QR code might come in handy when installing Hyperfox's root CA on a mobile device:

Use the -ca-cert and -ca-key flags to provide Hyperfox with the root CA certificate and key you'd like to use:

hyperfox -ca-cert rootCA.crt -ca-key rootCA.key

the above command creates a special server and binds it to 127.0.0.1:10443, this server waits for a SSL/TLS connection to arrive. When a new SSL/TLS connection hits in, Hyperfox uses the SNI extension to identify the destination nameserver and to create a SSL/TLS certificate for it, this certificate is signed with the providede root CA key.

Launch Hyperfox with appropriate TLS parameters and -http 443 (port 443 requires admin privileges).

sudo hyperfox -ca-cert ./ca/rootCA.crt -ca-key ./ca/rootCA.key -https 443

Use cURL to build a HTTPs request to example.com: the -resolve option tells cURL to skip DNS verification and use 127.0.0.1 as if it were the legitimate address for example.com, while the -k parameter tells cURL to accept any TLS certificate.

curl -k -resolve example.com:443:127.0.0.1 https://example.com

you should be able to see a log for the page you requested in Hyperfox's output:

127.0.0.1:36398 - - [11/Apr/2020:19:36:56 -0500] "GET https://example.com/ HTTP/2.0" 200 -1

Add the host you'd like to inspect to your /etc/hosts file:

example.com 127.0.0.1

Run Hyperfox with the options you'd like, just remember that you should use ports 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS, and that requires admin privileges. In addition to -http and -https use the -dns parameter with a valid DNS resolver:

sudo hyperfox -ui -http 80 -dns 8.8.8.8

that will make Hyperfox skip the OS DNS resolver and use an alternative one (remember that example.com points to 127.0.1).

Now use cURL and try to go to the destination:

curl http://example.com

Hyperfox will capture the request and print it to its output:

127.0.0.1:41766 - - [11/Apr/2020:19:43:30 -0500] "GET http://example.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -1

See MITM attack with Hyperfox and arpfox.

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