Didier Stevens

Wednesday 27 June 2018

Quickpost: Decoding Certutil Encoded Files

Filed under: My Software,Quickpost — Didier Stevens @ 0:00

As I showed a colleague, it’s easy to analyze a file encoded with certutil using my base64dump.py tool:

Just use option -w to ignore all whitespace, and base64dump.py will detect and decode the base64 string.

As can be seen in the screenshot, it’s a file starting with MZ: probably a PE file.

We can confirm this with my YARA rule to detect PE files:

Or use pecheck.py:

 


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