reversemedium

Nucleus

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Task: PE32+ Windows executable with nested binaries in RCDATA resources, each XOR-encoded. Solution: Recursive extraction of 21 layers, brute-forcing single-byte XOR keys by looking for MZ header; flag encoded in the XOR keys themselves.

$ ls tags/ techniques/
pe_resource_parsingsingle_byte_xor_bruteforcerecursive_binary_extractionflag_from_xor_keys

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