Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to become an open source alternative to commercial software like Burp Suite Pro, with powerful features tailored to the needs of the infosec and bug bounty community.

Features/to do

• HTTP man-in-the-middle (MITM) proxy and GraphQL server.
• Web interface (Next.js) with proxy log viewer.
• Add scope support to the proxy.
• Full text search (with regex) in proxy log viewer.
• Project management.
• Sender module for sending manual HTTP requests, either from scratch or based off requests from the proxy log.
• Attacker module for automated sending of HTTP requests. Leverage the concurrency features of Go and its net/http package to make it blazingly fast.

Installation

Hetty is packaged on GitHub as a single binary, with the web interface resources embedded.

👉 You can find downloads for Linux, macOS and Windows on the releases page.

Alternatives:

Build from source

$ go get github.com/dstotijn/hetty

Then export the Next.js frontend app:

$ cd admin
$ yarn install
$ yarn export

This will ensure a folder ./admin/dist exists. Then, you can bundle the frontend app using rice. The easiest way to do this is via a supplied Makefile command in the root of the project:

make build

Docker

Alternatively, you can run Hetty via Docker. See: dstotijn/hetty on Docker Hub.

$ docker run \
-v $HOME/.hetty/hetty_key.pem:/root/.hetty/hetty_key.pem \
-v $HOME/.hetty/hetty_cert.pem:/root/.hetty/hetty_cert.pem \
-v $HOME/.hetty/hetty.bolt:/root/.hetty/hetty.bolt \
-p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
dstotijn/hetty

Usage

Hetty is packaged as a single binary, with the web interface resources embedded. When the program is run, it listens by default on :8080 and is accessible via http://localhost:8080. Depending on incoming HTTP requests, it either acts as a MITM proxy, or it serves the GraphQL API and web interface (Next.js).

$ Usage of ./hetty:
  -addr string
        TCP address to listen on, in the form "host:port" (default ":80")
  -adminPath string
        File path to admin build
  -cert string
        CA certificate filepath. Creates a new CA certificate is file doesn't exist (default "~/.hetty/hetty_cert.pem")
  -db string
        Database file path (default "hetty.db")
  -key string
        CA private key filepath. Creates a new CA private key if file doesn't exist (default "~/.hetty/hetty_key.pem")

⚠️ Todo: Write instructions for installing CA certificate in local CA store, and configuring Hetty to be used as a proxy server.

Vision and roadmap

The project has just gotten underway, and as such I haven’t had time yet to do a write-up on its mission and roadmap. A short summary/braindump:

• Fast core/engine, built with Go, with a minimal memory footprint.
• GraphQL server to interact with the backend.
• Easy to use web interface, built with Next.js and Material UI.
• Extensibility is top of mind. All modules are written as Go packages, to be used by the main hetty program, but also usable as libraries for other software. Aside from the GraphQL server, it should (eventually) be possible to also use it as a CLI tool.
• Pluggable architecture for the MITM proxy and future modules, making it possible for hook into the core engine.
• I’ve chosen Cayley as the graph database (backed by BoltDB storage on disk) for now (not sure if it will work in the long run). The benefit is that Cayley (also written in Go) is embedded as a library. Because of this, the complete application is self contained in a single running binary.
• Talk to the community, and focus on the features that the majority. Less features means less code to maintain.

Status

The project is currently under active development. Please star/follow and check back soon. 🤗

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Hacker101 community on Discord for all the encouragement to actually start building this thing!

License

MIT

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