Enumerating objects / methods in Javascript

I was reading the following post on the Metasploit blog: Fuzzing Flash For Fun (ASNative), which described how to use an undocumented feature of ActionScript to get the list of all functions and then fuzz them. I thought: surely, there is a simpler, documented way to do that.

Now, the following code was written in Javascript, but given that both Actionscript and Javascript are derivatives of the same ECMA standard, a similar technique may (should?) work with Actionscript also. The basic idea is that there exists a "Global Object", which all other objects are referenced from, so starting the walk there should give you all the objects.

Two remarks: you have to collect the results first and display it later, because writing to the DOM will create an infinite cycle (for each object you see a new DOM object is created, which in turn also needs to be parsed and so on). The try/catch clauses are necessary because accessing some protected properties/objects (I've tested it with FF - I'm not sure if other browsers have a similar concept) will trigger exceptions, prematurely terminating the enumeration if they aren't present.

<script>
seen = [];

function gatherObjects(obj, path) {  
  if (seen == obj) return;
  try {
    for (var i in obj) {
      var o;
      try { o = obj[i]; } 
      catch(err) { continue; }
      if ('object' != typeof o) continue;
      
      var wasSeen = 0;
      for (var j in seen)
        if (seen[j] == obj[i]) {
          wasSeen = 1;          
          break;
        }
        
      if (wasSeen) continue;
      
      seen[path] = obj;
      gatherObjects(obj[i], path + '/' + i);
    }
  } catch(err) {
    alert("Error: " + err);
  }
}
gatherObjects(this, '');

functions = 0;
objects = 0;
document.write('<ul>');
for (var j in seen) {
  document.write('<li>' + j + '</li>');
  document.write('<li>');
  document.write('<ul>');    
  ++objects;
  try {
    for (var i in seen[j]) {
      try {
        if ('function' != typeof seen[j][i]) continue;
        if (gatherObjects == seen[j][i]) continue;
        document.write('<li>' + i + '</li>');
        ++functions;
      } catch(err) { }
    }
  } catch(err) { }
  document.write('</ul>');
  document.write('</li>');  
}
document.write('</ul>');
document.write('<p>Seen ' + functions + ' functions in ' + objects + ' objects</p>');
</script>

From here you can start fuzzing (the same technique of sending feedback trough XMLHttpRequest should work) the same way as the Metasploit guys used it. Happy fuzzing!