[ale] Need a simple perl (etc.) program, but I don't speak perl

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 12:19:58 EDT 2010


James,

I sure that worked because I see some interesting strings after the decode.

But how to I save that binary back out to a file?

Greg

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just paste the text into the field at
> http://ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html and click "Hex Decode". You'll
> quickly see what this thing does.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm looking at an intrusion and found the attached very suspicious
>> html file (I added a .bin extent so it would not be associated with a
>> browser etc.
>>
>> Anyway, within it there is a string  (see below) that I think is the
>> hex expression (see below) of malware that I need converted to binary.
>>  Can someone help me out with a perl script to convert.  Or even
>> better, convert it to binary and seal it up in a password protected
>> zip file.  Use "infected" as the password.  Thanks, Greg
>>
>> == Potential malware representation
>
>
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