Hacker Giraffe SAME_AS Hacker Giraffe
The interview subject identifies himself as Hacker Giraffe, matching the catalogued threat-actor identity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“Hi. I’m Hacker Giraffe.”
Episode
05 February 2019 Official episode · Official transcript
black hat research
The episode covers Hacker Giraffe’s internet-wide exploitation of exposed printers and Chromecast devices, using the activity to raise security awareness and promote PewDiePie.
Topics: Internet-wide device discovery with Shodan, Unauthenticated and unencrypted direct printing on port 9100, Printer security and exposed print services on ports 515, 631, and 9100, Universal Plug and Play port exposure, PRET printer exploitation capabilities, Malicious PDFs and printer terminal access, Printers as potential gateways into internal networks, Printer botnets, Internet-exposed Chromecast APIs, Chromecast ports 8008, 8443, and 8009, Google Home API exposure and microphone noise-level disclosure, Mass exploitation of exposed consumer devices, Public disclosure and security-awareness operations
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Hacker Giraffe SAME_AS Hacker Giraffe
The interview subject identifies himself as Hacker Giraffe, matching the catalogued threat-actor identity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“Hi. I’m Hacker Giraffe.”
Hacker Giraffe USES Metasploit
Hacker Giraffe says he used Metasploit to hack into teachers’ machines at his school.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“The school is running Windows XP. Just fire up good old Metasploit”
Hacker Giraffe USES Shodan
Hacker Giraffe says he usually searched Shodan for connected devices and systems to investigate.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“I’m usually lurking around Shodan. It’s the search engine for connected devices.”
Hacker Giraffe USES Printer Exploitation Toolkit
Hacker Giraffe used PRET, the Printer Exploitation Toolkit, to connect to exposed printers and print messages.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“I found PRET, which is the Printer Exploitation Toolkit”
Printer Exploitation Toolkit AFFECTS network printer
PRET can connect to network printers and perform actions including printing, listing files, and resetting the printer.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“this tool can connect and you can do all kinds of things like list the files, reset the printer”
internet-exposed printer AFFECTS network printer
Internet-exposed printers can receive print commands from anywhere; port 9100 had no authentication or encryption in the described setup.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“There’s no authentication or encryption; you simply send your PDF file to the port with the command to print”
printer exploitation incident ATTRIBUTED_TO Hacker Giraffe
The worldwide printer exploitation incident is presented as Hacker Giraffe’s action.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“Someone Hacked Printers Worldwide Urging People to Subscribe to PewDiePie.”
“This brings us back to The Hacker.”
printer exploitation incident COMPROMISES network printer
The incident remotely caused exposed network printers to print messages and, in some cases, display a hacked name.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“It successfully printed to 100 printers and then 1000 printers and then 10,000 printers.”
printer exploitation incident INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA internet-exposed printer
The printer incident gained access through printers exposed to the public internet, especially those with port 9100 open.
Derived Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“if these ports were exposed to the internet it may mean that someone can print to that machine from anywhere in the world”
printer exploitation incident INVOLVES remote printing
The incident involved remotely sending print jobs to thousands of printers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“His script would connect to one printer at a time, send it a PDF, and tell it to print.”
printer exploitation incident INVOLVES PewDiePie
The printer messages promoted PewDiePie and urged recipients to subscribe to him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“PewDiePie is in trouble and needs your help to defeat T-Series. Unsubscribe from T-Series and subscribe to PewDiePie.”
printer exploitation incident INVOLVES T-Series
The printer message urged recipients to unsubscribe from T-Series as part of the PewDiePie campaign.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“Unsubscribe from T-Series and subscribe to PewDiePie.”
Universal Plug and Play AFFECTS network printer
UPnP can cause routers to open printer ports to the public internet, exposing network printers.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“networked devices like printers can reach out to the router and request that port 9100 be opened”
Universal Plug and Play AFFECTS Chromecast
UPnP was described as a reason Chromecasts could be exposed to the internet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“These Chromecasts were also exposed to the internet because of UPnP.”
Universal Plug and Play AFFECTS Google Home Device
The episode places Google Home devices among devices whose ports could be exposed through router configuration involving UPnP.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“Apparently Google Home Devices were also opening up this port and they had an API, too.”
Hacker Giraffe ASSOCIATED_WITH User
Hacker Giraffe collaborated with User on the later printer and Chromecast operations.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“We came together after seeing a few articles came out”
printer exploitation incident INVOLVES User
User participated with Hacker Giraffe in the later operation targeting the remaining exposed printers.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“We went through the full 800,000 with the same message again.”
Hacker Giraffe USES Discord
Hacker Giraffe used Discord to coordinate and prepare people for the Chromecast operation.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“He got on his Discord chat room and told everyone to get ready.”
Chromecast exploitation incident ATTRIBUTED_TO Hacker Giraffe
The Chromecast exploitation incident is described as an operation conducted by Hacker Giraffe and User.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“Him and User had everything ready, the list of 120,000 vulnerable Chromecasts, the video, the script”
Chromecast exploitation incident COMPROMISES Chromecast
The incident caused Chromecasts to play a video and renamed many devices.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“he was able to play the video on 65,000 Chromecasts and renamed another 8,000 of them”
Chromecast exploitation incident INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA Chromecast exposed API
The Chromecast operation used exposed Chromecast APIs and publicly reachable ports.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“This API is open. What exactly can we pull from it?”
Chromecast exploitation incident INVOLVES Google Home Device
The Shodan results for the Chromecast operation also included Google Home devices with an accessible API.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“Apparently Google Home Devices were also opening up this port and they had an API, too.”
Chromecast exploitation incident INVOLVES port 8008
The Chromecast investigation identified port 8008 as an exposed web/API endpoint.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“I came across the port 8008 and 8443”
Chromecast exploitation incident INVOLVES port 8443
The Chromecast investigation identified port 8443 as the SSO version of port 8008.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“port 8008 and 8443 which is basically the SSO version of 8008”
Chromecast exploitation incident INVOLVES port 8009
After Google disabled the initial YouTube API method, the operation was modified to use port 8009 and resumed.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hacker Giraffe EP 31 Details
“I found out another port, port 8009 which uses Google’s own protocol.”
PewDiePie MENTIONS Hacker Giraffe
PewDiePie publicly identified and discussed Hacker Giraffe’s printer operation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · PewDiePie EP 31 Details
“This is made by the Hacker Giraffe.”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack identifies himself as the maker of Darknet Diaries.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 31 Details
“This show is made by me, the hacker, hacker hippo, Jack Rhysider”
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