I received a piece of malware today and as one will do, I of course opened it up on my test machine. Like with a lot of phishing-types of emails, it was really just trying to get at a password (in this case it was a fake Office365 login). One thing that jumped out at me was that the payload was a bunch of base64 encoded blobs. The machine was offline, so I couldn’t use one of the many online decoders to see what it was doing. Thus, time to bust out the old openssl and base64 commands. Let’s start with a quick example of encoding a string object into…
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