Working with base64
Last week I received another malicious document with embedded payload encoded with base64. A bit tired of repeating the same manual operations to extract and decode base64 content, I quickly wrote a small Python script to help me. base64dump.py searches through the given file for base64 strings (delimited by non-base64 characters), and produce a report like this one:
Here is a video of the tool in action.
Didier Stevens
Microsoft MVP Consumer Security
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