Didier Stevens

Sunday 25 September 2022

Taking A Look At PNG Files with pngdump.py Beta Version 0.0.3

Filed under: Beta,My Software,Update — Didier Stevens @ 20:10

Here’s a new beta version of my tool pngdump.py, a tool to analyze PNG files.

I took a look at all files on MalwareBazaar with a PNG tag, and made updates to pngdump.py to handle them.

I found 3 types of “PNG” files.

First, files spoofing PNG files: files that are not PNG files, but have a .png extension.

Like .exe and .rar files:

Second, valid PNG files with an appended payload:

Third, invalid PNG files. For example, PNG files with the right record structure, but where the Zlib compressed image is replaced by an RC4 encrypted payload (IcedID):

I also have other samples, but that’s for another blog post.

Beta version 0.0.3 is available on GitHub.

Monday 21 February 2022

Beta: smtp-honeypot.py

Filed under: Beta,My Software — Didier Stevens @ 16:49

This Python script is essentially a wrapper for the smtpd Python module.

I use it to receive emails, and write them to disk.

Sometimes I use this to exfiltrate (malicious) emails.

Sunday 16 July 2017

Beta: format-bytes.py

Filed under: Beta,My Software — Didier Stevens @ 23:57

I needed a tool that can interpret bytes as various integers, so I came up with format-bytes.py:

I’m not happy yet with the layout of the output, that’s why it’s beta.

 

Wednesday 28 September 2016

decoder-search.py Beta

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

I’ve been developing a new Python program similar to XORSearch. decoder-search.py does brute-forcing and searching of a file like XORSearch, but it stead of simple operations like XOR, ROL, …, it can handle more complex translations. Templates for these translations have to be provided in a configuration file, for example like this:

expression ((byte + %i1:1-10%) ^ %i2:1-32%) % 0x100

This template specifies a translation expression that adds a number to each byte in the file, and then XORs the sum. The first integer added to each byte is brute-forced from 1 to 10 (%i1:1-10%), and the second integer used for the XOR operation is brute-forced from 1 to 32 (%i2:1-32%). Such an encoding has been used in the last hancitor maldoc samples.

Here is the result on a sample that contains an encoded EXE:
20160927-201559

And here is the result on a sample that contains encoded URLs:

20160927-201914

For me this tool is still in beta phase, because I might change the format of the configuration file in later versions, without providing backwards compatibility. You can find it in my GitHub Beta repository.

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