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Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser
59•hazebooth•2h ago

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lapcat•2h ago
Dupe, submitted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492489
tbrockman•42m ago
Not to comment on the rest of article or the author's goals, but it's absolutely possible to use a content script (dynamically injected into the `main` world, as opposed to the default `isolated`, for example: https://github.com/tbrockman/browser-extension-for-opentelem...) and Proxy's (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) to hook (most? if not all) Javascript being executed in the webpage transparently.

Which for some functionality would have been a bit more portable and involved less effort.

nullpt_rs•35m ago
Thanks for sharing some examples! Someone shared a similar project in the other thread. I didn’t realize this at the time of writing haha.

FWIW I still think modifying the browser has some positives wrt stealth and hooking out of process frames (could be wrong on the second part, haven’t actually tested!)

Still good to know though will leave a note in the article :-)

tbrockman•13m ago
Yeah, there's a pretty overwhelming amount of browser APIs and functionality which isn't always (well-)documented to learn about. If I recall correctly Proxies wouldn't be detectable (seems to be supported by https://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_proxies.html#sec_detect-proxi...) so long as your injected content script runs first (otherwise other code could presumably override the Proxy constructor). You should also be able to hook any embedded frames by setting `target: { ..., allFrames: true }`.
coolelectronics•30m ago
could be very useful for my work, nice to see

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