hstsparser 1.1.4

A tool to parse Firefox and Chrome HSTS databases into forensic artifacts.

HSTS Parser

HSTS Parser is a simple tool to parse Firefox and Chrome's HSTS databases into actually helpful forensic artifacts! You can read more about the research behind this tool and potential uses for it over on my blog!

Installation

HSTS Parser can be installed via pip, or with Poetry.

From PyPi

pip install hstsparser

Poetry (Linux)

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python
poetry install --no-dev

Poetry (Windows)

(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py -UseBasicParsing).Content | python
poetry install --no-dev

Alternatively, if you're using Windows, you can use the executables on the releases page to not need to install anything at all.

Usage

All of the below documentation is written for the Python version rather than the standalone executable, but the commands will be the same.

$ hstsparser -h
usage: hstsparser [-h] [-w WORDLIST] [--csv CSV] (--firefox | --chrome) FILE

Process HSTS databases

positional arguments:
  FILE         The path to the database to be processed

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  -w WORDLIST  The path to the database to be processed
  --csv CSV    Output to a CSV file
  --firefox    Process a Firefox database
  --chrome     Process a Chrome database

Examples

Firefox

hstsparser --firefox SiteSecurityServiceState.txt

Chrome

hstsparser --chrome TransportSecurity

Chrome with Wordlist

hstsparser -w wordlist.txt --chrome TransportSecurity

Screenshots

Firefox

Chrome with Wordlist

Links

• My Blog Post
• MDN - HSTS
• Chromium - HSTS