HTML Obfuscation

Abstract

The aim of HTML obfuscation was to develop an application that could be installed over a web browser and help obfuscate information that is sent across the internet. Auto-bots and web-crawlers are used to obtain the information, by scrapping, in a mass manner. This information then is used for advertisement, spam, and other malicious purposes. Obfuscation is necessary to break patterns in the source code so as to render the auto-bots ineffective for scraping data from web pages. The application allows the web-server administrator to configure the application for multiple web sites (hosted on the server) and select text for obfuscation via input of patterns. The application listens to all the web requests (over port 80 ) and calls for the requested source code from the IIS Server. It then parses the complete code and recognizes patterns that are to be obfuscated. After obfuscation, the new equivalent code is sent back over the web. Obfuscated code is randomly created every time. The basic aim of this application is to multiply the effort of botcreation and cause de-motivation.