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Killcast – Manipulate Chromecast Devices In Your Network

January 10, 2019
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Killcast - Manipulate Chromecast Devices In Your Network

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Manipulate Chromecast Devices in your Network.

Inspiration – Thousands of Google Chromecast Devices Hijacked to Promote PewDiePie
This tool is a Proof of Concept and is for Research Purposes Only, killcast shows how Chromecast devices can be easily manipulated and hijacked by anyone.

Features

  • Extract Interesting Information such as Build Version, Country, Timezone etc
  • Rename
  • Reboot
  • Perform Factory Reset
  • Kill Active Applications such as YouTube, Netflix and Google Play Music

What is not working

  • Play any YouTube Video
  • Unable to kill Play Music
  • Other things that we are not aware of 😉

Tested On :

  • Kali Linux 2019.1
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • Termux

Installation

Ubuntu / Kali Linux / Termux

git clone https://github.com/thewhiteh4t/killcast.git
cd killcast
apt-get install python3
pip install requests

Usage

python3 killcast.py -h
usage: killcast.py [-h] -t IP
Manipulate Chromecast Devices in your Network
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t IP, --ip IP IP Address of Chromecast

python3 killcast.py -t 192.168.0.100

Demo

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wmWnMVE2aw]

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