Chapter 10: Obfuscation

Objectives

[Back] The key objectives of this chapter are:

• Outline obfuscation methods.
• Define methods used to encode data in order to hide its original content.
• Understand encryption methods used to hide data, and possible methods to overcome this obfuscation.
• Define how file types can be discovered.

Associated software: Toolkit.

Lecture

Test

The test for this unit is Test.

File Signatures

• File signatures

Related Material

• Encryption/Hashing/etc This shows examples from the encryption/hashing part of the Toolkit. Install Toolkit
• RSA Brute Force This shows examples from the RSA encryption part of the Toolkit. Install Toolkit
• Brute Force on Hash This shows an example of brute force on encrypted content. Install Toolkit
• Digital Certificates This shows the importing of digital certificates.
• Encoding This shows an example of converting from ASCII, Base-64, Hex, and Binary, into the other formats.
• Ex-OR coding This shows an example of Ex-OR encoding.
• Frequency Analysis This shows an example of frequency encoding.
• IP Packet (Windows)
• IP Packet (Ubuntu)
• Random scrambled alphabet

Lab

The lab is [here]

Slides