New Tool: cs-decrypt-metadata.py

Malware Analysis
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cs-decrypt-metadata.py is a new tool, developed to decrypt the metadata of a Cobalt Strike beacon.

An active beacon regularly checks in with its team server, transmitting medata (like the AES key, the username & machine name, …) that is encrypted with the team server’s private key.

This tool can decrypt this data, provided:

  1. you give it the file containing the private (and public) key, .cobaltstrike.beacon_keys (option -f)
  2. you give it the private key in hexadecimal format (option -p)
  3. the private key is one of the 6 keys in its repository (default behavior)

I will publish blog posts explaining how to use this tool.

Here is a quick example:

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cs-decrypt-metadata_V0_0_1.zip (https)
MD5: 31F94659163A6E044A011B0D82623413
SHA256: 50ED1820DC63009B579D7D894D4DD3C5F181CFC000CA83B2134100EE92EEDD9F

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