Malware Analysis IDAPython script to decode NightHawk strings

struppigel

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This script will search in NightHawk samples for the decode function and the substitution alphabets, then decode strings referenced by the decoder function, then add the plaintext strings as comments to IDA.

In IDA it looks like this:
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Tested on IDA 8.1 with the following NightHawk samples:

This article was of great help for NightHawk analysis: Nighthawk: An Up-and-Coming Pentest Tool Likely to Gain Threat Actor Notice | Proofpoint US

The IDAPython script is in my repo: hedgehog-tools/nighthawk_str_decoder.py at main · struppigel/hedgehog-tools
 

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