Having the right tools in your penetration testing toolkit is important for effectively assessing vulnerabilities and threats. One tool that can fit easily into both offensive campaigns and defensive countermeasures is the New Generation Browser Exploitation Framework Project Eden.
What is Eden?
Eden is a powerful browser exploitation framework designed to enhance red team assessments and security training. It includes advanced features like Browser-in-the-Browser (BITB) attacks, dynamic permission requests (camera, mic, clipboard, location), and real-time multi-client management. Eden enables a realistic simulation of a modern browser.
Confused? Let’s work through an example to see how this would be valuable.
Suppose there is a website with an XSS vulnerability, and an attacker hooks (embeds) malicious JavaScript on it. Security professionals know this is a potentially problematic situation. The attacker can now communicate directly with the user and do the following:
- Show the user any content they want;
- Request permissions via that page to access the microphone, location, webcam, and clipboard.
- Attempt to launch a Browser in the Browser Phishing Attack.
- Attempt to launch mobile, for example, Java;
- Linl to other sites and attempt to trick the user into running malware.
They can use the site in multiple malicious ways, such as clickjacking or cross-site request forgery.
These actions can all be simulated with Eden. The tool enables you to hook a web browser, which navigates to a page you control, effectively providing you with control over a tab on the user’s browser. While using BeEF, there is limited control for the specific actions you can take once in control vary depending on the type of browser, but in Eden, you don’t have any limitations and manage multiple targets, make custom webpages, and so on.
How to use Eden
You can easily download and use it on Windows 10/11 or Linux if you have installed Python version 3 and an ngrok valid account (you can also test it on localhost).
Wait a few seconds until all required packages are downloaded, then type the following command to start Eden.
After executing this command, other important steps like Node.js will start downloading, and then you will see the Eden banner on your terminal, as shown in the screenshot below.
Now it's time to hook the JavaScript tag on the target webpage. For testing, we can create a simple HTML webpage and add the JavaScript tag to it.
After this, you just simply have to access the admin panel on your http://localhost :8080/login :
- Default ID: Eden
- Default Password: Eden
Now you can access your dashboard and see the connected clients as shown in the screen above.
Troubleshooting
If you face any problems or errors in this process, check the following troubleshoots list:
- Port in use: Stop existing processes on 8080 or change the port in server.js
- WebSocket not connecting: Ensure URLs are updated if using ngrok; verify network egress rules
- Media permissions denied: Users must approve permissions in their browser; some contexts (iframes, http vs https) may block access
- Clipboard access: Modern browsers restrict clipboard APIs. Eden implements polling and request patterns, but user gestures or permissions may still be required
- Antivirus/EDR: Real‑time protection may interfere with certain features or ngrok connections. Use only within authorised test environments
- Sometimes nmp ndoes ot install properly, so try again by closing the CMD tab
Conclusion
Eden is a powerful browser exploitation and simulation framework for red team assessments and security training. Eden helps you stage realistic modern web attack scenarios with Browser‑in‑the‑Browser (BitB) flows, dynamic permission prompts (camera, microphone, clipboard, screen, location), and real‑time multi‑client management over WebSockets
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