Cyber security

CLay – Enhancing Web Security hrough Deceptive Reverse Proxies

CLay offers a unique and powerful feature that goes beyond traditional security measures.

CLay takes deception to a new level by mimicking the appearance of a website with information from a different framework.

The primary objective is to mislead and deceive potential attackers, leading them to gather false information about the web application.

Features

  • Request filtering by User Agent
  • HTML Comment Filtering
  • Informative Response Header Filtering
  • Adding Dummy HTML Comments
  • Adding Decoy Informative Response Headers
  • Adding Decoy Cookies
  • Error Template Changing

Supported Decoy Frameworks

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Microsoft ASP.NET
  • Flask
  • Django

Supported Decoy Webservers

  • Nginx
  • Apache HTTP Server

Requirements

  • Python 3.11+
  • mitmproxy is a set of tools that provide an interactive, SSL/TLS-capable intercepting proxy for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets. CLay utilizes mitmproxy‘s capabilities to intercept and modify HTTP/HTTPS traffics on the fly.
  • Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine.

Quick Start

  1. Fetch and start CLay package installation.
git clone https://github.com/kisanakkkkk/CLay.git
cd CLay
pip3 install .

2. Generate new configuration file. On the menu prompt, choose [1] Run CLay (default config), then enter the target URL for which you’d like to set up the CLay.

CLay -g

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Varshini

Varshini is a Cyber Security expert in Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, and Research. Passionate about staying ahead of emerging Threats and Technologies.

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