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In this blog series we will analyze blockchain vulnerabilities and exploit them ourselves in various lab and development environments. If you would like to stay up to date on new posts follow and subscribe to the following: Twitter: @ficti0n
As of late I have been un-naturally obsessed with blockchains and crypto currency. With that obsession comes the normal curiosity of "How do I hack this and steal all the monies?"
However, as usual I could not find any actual walk thorough or solid examples of actually exploiting real code live. Just theory and half way explained examples.
That question with labs is exactly what we are going to cover in this series, starting with the topic title above of Re-Entrancy attacks which allow an attacker to siphon out all of the money held within a smart contract, far beyond that of their own contribution to the contract.
This will be a lab based series and I will show you how to use demo the code within various test environments and local environments in order to perform and re-create each attacks for yourself.
Note: As usual this is live ongoing research and info will be released as it is coded and exploited.
If you are bored of reading already and just want to watch videos for this info or are only here for the demos and labs check out the first set of videos in the series at the link below and skip to the relevant parts for you, otherwise lets get into it:
Background Info:
This is a bit of a harder topic to write about considering most of my audience are hackers not Ethereum developers or blockchain architects. So you may not know what a smart contract is nor how it is situated within the blockchain development model. So I am going to cover a little bit of context to help with understanding.I will cover the bare minimum needed as an attacker.
A Standard Application Model:
In client server we generally have the following:
Front End - what the user sees (HTML Etc)
Server Side - code that handles business logic
Back End - Your database for example MySQL
A Decentralized Application Model:
Now with a Decentralized applications (DAPP) on the blockchain you have similar front end server side technology however
Smart contracts are your access into the blockchain.
Your smart contract is kind of like an API
Essentially DAPPs are Ethereum enabled applications using smart contracts as an API to the blockchain data ledger
DAPPs can be banking applications, wallets, video games etc.
A blockchain is a trust-less peer to peer decentralized database or ledger
The back-end is distributed across thousands of nodes in its entirety on each node. Meaning every single node has a Full "database" of information called a ledger.The second difference is that this ledger is immutable, meaning once data goes in, data cannot be changed. This will come into play later in this discussion about smart contracts.
Consensus:
The blockchain of these decentralized ledgers is synchronized by a consensus mechanism you may be familiar with called "mining" or more accurately, proof of work or optionally Proof of stake.
Proof of stake is simply staking large sums of coins which are at risk of loss if one were to perform a malicious action while helping to perform consensus of data.
Much like proof of stake, proof of work(mining) validates hashing calculations to come to a consensus but instead of loss of coins there is a loss of energy, which costs money, without reward if malicious actions were to take place.
Each block contains transactions from the transaction pool combined with a nonce that meets the difficulty requirements.Once a block is found and accepted it places them on the blockchain in which more then half of the network must reach a consensus on.
The point is that no central authority controls the nodes or can shut them down. Instead there is consensus from all nodes using either proof of work or proof of stake. They are spread across the whole world leaving a single centralized jurisdiction as an impossibility.
Things to Note:
First Note: Immutability
So, the thing to note is that our smart contracts are located on the blockchain
And the blockchain is immutable
This means an Agile development model is not going to work once a contract is deployed.
This means that updates to contracts is next to impossible
All you can really do is createa kill-switch or fail safe functions to disable and execute some actions if something goes wrong before going permanently dormant.
If you don't include a kill switch the contract is open and available and you can't remove it
Second Note:Code Is Open Source
Smart Contracts are generally open source
Which means people like ourselves are manually bug hunting smart contracts and running static analysis tools against smart contract code looking for bugs.
When issues are found the only course of action is:
Kill the current contract which stays on the blockchain
Then deploy a whole new version.
If there is no killSwitch the contract will be available forever.
Now I know what you're thinking, these things are ripe for exploitation.
And you would be correct based on the 3rd note
Third Note: Security in the development process is lacking
Many contracts and projects do not even think about and SDLC.
They rarely add penetration testing and vulnerability testing in the development stages if at all
At best there is a bug bounty before the release of their main-nets
Which usually get hacked to hell and delayed because of it.
Things are getting better but they are still behind the curve, as the technology is new and blockchain mostly developers and marketers.Not hackers or security testers.
Forth Note:Potential Data Exposure via Future Broken Crypto
If sensitive data is placed on the blockchain it is there forever
Which means that if a cryptographic algorithm is broken anything which is encrypted with that algorithm is now accessible
We all know that algorithms are eventually broken!
So its always advisable to keep sensitive data hashed for integrity on the blockchain but not actually stored on the blockchain directly
Exploitation of Re-Entrancy Vulnerabilities:
With a bit of the background out of the way let's get into the first attack in this series.
Re-Entrancy attacks allow an attacker to create a re-cursive loop within a contract by having the contract call the target function rather than a single request from auser. Instead the request comes from the attackers contract which does not let the target contracts execution complete until the tasks intended by the attacker are complete. Usually this task will be draining the money out of the contract until all of the money for every user is in the attackers account.
Example Scenario:
Let's say that you are using a bank and you have deposited 100 dollars into your bank account.Now when you withdraw your money from your bank account the bank account first sends you 100 dollars before updating your account balance.
Well what if when you received your 100 dollars, it was sent to malicious code that called the withdraw function again not lettingthe initial target deduct your balance ?
With this scenario you could then request 100 dollars, then request 100 again and you now have 200 dollars sent to you from the bank. But 50% of that money is not yours. It's from the whole collection of money that the bank is tasked to maintain for its accounts.
Ok that's pretty cool, but what if that was in a re-cursive loop that did not BREAK until all accounts at the bank were empty?
That is Re-Entrancy in a nutshell.So let's look at some code.
Example Target Code:
function withdraw(uint withdrawAmount) public returns (uint) {
Line 1: Checks that you are only withdrawing the amount you have in your account or sends back an error.
Line 2: Sends your requested amount to the address the requested that withdrawal.
Line 3: Deducts the amount you withdrew from your account from your total balance.
Line 4. Simply returns your current balance.
Ok this all seems logical.. however the issue is in Line 2 - Line 3.The balance is being sent back to you before the balance is deducted. So if you were to call this from a piece of code which just accepts anything which is sent to it, but then re-calls the withdraw function you have a problem as it never gets to Line 3 which deducts the balance from your total. This means that Line 1 will always have enough money to keep withdrawing.
Let's take a look at how we would do that:
Example Attacking Code:
function attack() public payable {
1.bankAddress.withdraw(amount);
}
2.function () public payable {
3.if (address(bankAddress).balance >= amount) {
4.bankAddress.withdraw(amount);
}
}
Line 1: This function is calling the banks withdraw function with an amount less than the total in your account
Line 2: This second function is something called a fallback function. This function is used to accept payments that come into the contract when no function is specified. You will notice this function does not have a name but is set to payable.
Line 3:This line is checking that the target accounts balance is greater than the amount being withdrawn.
Line 4:Then again calling the withdraw function to continue the loop which will in turn be sent back to the fallback function and repeat lines over and over until the target contracts balance is less than the amount being requested.
Review the diagram above which shows the code paths between the target and attacking code. During this whole process the first code example from the withdraw function is only ever getting to lines 1-2 until the bank is drained of money. It never actually deducts your requested amount until the end when the full contract balance is lower then your withdraw amount. At this point it's too late and there is no money left in the contract.
Setting up a Lab Environment and coding your Attack:
Hopefully that all made sense. If you watch the videos associated with this blog you will see it all in action.We will now analyze code of a simple smart contract banking application. We will interface with this contract via our own smart contract we code manually and turn into an exploit to take advantage of the vulnerability.
Then lets open up an online ethereum development platform at the following link where we will begin analyzing and exploiting smart contracts in real time in the video below:
Coding your Exploit and Interfacing with a Contract Programmatically:
The rest of this blog will continue in the video below where we will manually code an interface to a full smart contract and write an exploit to take advantage of a Re-Entrency Vulnerability:
Conclusion:
In this smart contract exploit writing intro we showed a vulnerability that allowed for re entry to a contract in a recursive loop. We then manually created an exploit to take advantage of the vulnerability. This is just the beginning, as this series progresses you will see other types of vulnerabilities and have the ability to code and exploit them yourself. On this journey through the decentralized world you will learn how to code and craft exploits in solidity using various development environments and test nets.
This quick blog post will document getting started with developing Burp extensions using java. Burp provides interfaces for developers to hook into the Burp application and extend the application or integrate with other tools, this interface is documented on the following site - http://portswigger.net/burp/extender/
After downloading and opening up Eclipse you will need to create a new java project. This can be done by clicking "File->New Java Project". Fill in a project name and click finish.
Once the project has been created you will need to create a new package called "burp". This can be done by right clicking the "src" folder under your new project and selecting "New->Package". When the dialog comes up set the "Name" as "burp":
You should now have a package named "burp" under the source folder in the right pane. Now you will need to import the Burp extender classes into your project. Download all of the extender classes to a local folder, once this is done right click on the "burp" package in your project and select "Import". On the dialog window that comes up select "General->File System" and hit "next":
On the next dialog you will need to navigate to where you downloaded the Burp extender classes to. Once you have done this you should see the classes, click on the folder to select all items and click "Finish":
Next we can add the Burp application into the project. To do this click on "Project->Properties" on the top toolbar. When the dialog opens select "Java Build Path" and then the "Libraries" tab. On this dialog click "Add External JARs..."
Navigate to where ever you have Burp downloaded to and select it. After you have done this click "OK" to dismiss the dialog. You are now ready to build your own Burp extensions. You can test your environment by creating a new class in the burp package named "BurpExtender". Right click the "burp" package and click "New->Class". On the dialog that comes up enter "BurpExtender" and click "Finish":
In the "BurpExtender" class you can enter the following:
package burp;
public class BurpExtender { public void registerExtenderCallbacks(IBurpExtenderCallbacks callbacks) { callbacks.registerMenuItem("Hello World.", new CustomMenuItem()); } }
class CustomMenuItem implements IMenuItemHandler { public void menuItemClicked(String menuItemCaption, IHttpRequestResponse[] messageInfo) { try { System.out.println("Hello From Burp!"); System.out.println("Request Item Details"); System.out.println("Host: " + messageInfo[0].getHost()); System.out.println("URL: " + messageInfo[0].getUrl());
After adding the content to your "BurpExtender" class you are ready to run the project for the first time. Click on "Run->Run" from the menu. You should see the following dialog asking how it should run your project:
Select "Java Application" and click "Ok". Next you should receive a dialog asking which application you want to run. Select "StartBurp - burp" and click "Ok":
You should now see the burp application running. Intercept a request in the application and right click on the request, you should now see an item in the menu named "Hello World."
When you click the "Hello World." menu button you should see some information about the request in your eclipse console window:
That's it, you now have setup your working development environment for building your own Burp extensions. The javadocs for the Burp Extender interfaces are available on the Extender web page:
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