Killcast - Manipulate Chromecast Devices In Your Network

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