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Learning Malware Analysis
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Learning Malware Analysis

by Monnappa K A
June 2018
Beginner
510 pages
13h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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1.2 Base64 Encoding

Using Caesar cipher, an attacker can encrypt letters, but it is not good enough to encrypt binary data. Attackers use various other encoding/encryption algorithms to encrypt binary data. Base64 encoding allows an attacker to encode binary data to an ASCII string format. For this reason, you will often see attackers using Base64-encoded data in plain text protocols such as HTTP.

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