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Malcat tip: fast unpacking of RTF payloads

Malcat tip: fast unpacking of RTF payloads

Sat 10 August 2024
In this short tutorial, we will see how to extract binary payloads from RTF documents using Malcat. We will then proceed to emulate a shellcode for CVE-2017-11882 and extract the download link.
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Shrinking a PYC file to its minimum

Shrinking a PYC file to its minimum

Sun 07 January 2024
In this tutorial, we will see how to use Malcat editing capabilities to reduce the size of a python bytecode file (.pyc) to its minimum. This article is the write-up for our Binary Golf Grand Prix 4 entry.
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