Cybersecurity

Automating Pikabot’s String Deobfuscation

Technical Analysis Strings obfuscation The steps for decrypting a Pikabot string are relatively simple. Each string is decrypted only when required (in other words, Pikabot does not decrypt all strings at once). Pikabot follows the steps below to decrypt a string: Pushes on the stack the encrypted string array. Initializes the RC4 encryption algorithm. The […]