THE SCRAPER ARSENAL
Five standalone posts on parser exploitation, polyglot warfare, and the weaponization of web standards.

Author: frankSx | frankhacks.blogspot.com
Created: Friday 22 May 2026 – Wednesday 28 May 2026

Post Title Focus Tags
1 The Asylum: Documents That Refuse to Be Documents HTML5 parser exploitation, foster parenting, adoption agency, mXSS HTML, PARSER
2 The Living Image: SVG as Weapon and Shield Weaponized SVG, zero-knowledge authentication via gradient chains SVG, AUTH
3 The Execution Frontier: Polyglots, WASM, and Python in the Browser Polyglot containers, WASM/WASI execution, Pyodide colonization POLYGLOT, WASM, PYODIDE
4 The Pipeline: Poisoning Every Stage of Scraper Ingestion LLM digestion poisoning, adversarial audio, transport smuggling, context window attacks LLM, SIREN, TRANSPORT
5 The Arsenal: 18 Parser Vectors and the Cost of Scraping 18 parser vectors, DOMPurify bypasses, Billion Laughs, cost reckoning REFERENCE

What This Is

Web scrapers are becoming more menacing, stealing works for plagiarism, gobbling up data like it's no one's business. With the introduction of LLMs and agentic systems, the sophistication of these scrapers has increased dramatically. This brings about a need to study how these systems collect, parse, store, and reuse data — and how we can make that process expensive.

Each post below attacks a different layer of the scraper pipeline. They are written as standalone articles — you can read any one without needing the others. But they also form a complete picture if read together.

The scraper expects the web to be a library: organized, categorized, indexable. We are building a jungle: overgrown, toxic, actively hostile to anything that isn't adapted to its specific ecology. — frankSx, The Scraper Arsenal

Reading Guide

  • Start with The Asylum if you want to understand HTML parser exploitation — how unclosed tags, foster parenting, and the adoption agency algorithm turn the browser's own healing instinct into an execution primitive.
  • Start with The Living Image if you're interested in SVG — how a "picture" becomes a program that beacons, burns CPU, and performs zero-knowledge authentication.
  • Start with The Execution Frontier if you want the runtime layer — polyglot containers that confuse file type classifiers, WASM modules that occupy the scraper's process, and Python running inside the browser via Pyodide.
  • Start with The Pipeline if you care about the end-to-end ingestion chain — poisoning LLM training data, weaponizing audio frequencies, smuggling payloads through HTTP/2 and WebSockets, and breaking context windows.
  • Start with The Arsenal if you want the reference manual — 18 distinct parser exploitation vectors with mechanisms, targets, and cost analysis.

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