chopping vegetables Defense

Firstly, you need some Powershell Base64 commands, you could search your security logs or Sysmon logs for these, or simply generate some yourself!

powershell.exe -noprofile -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -EncodedCommand bgBlAHQAIAB1AHMAZQByACAAcwBlAGMAYQB1AGQAaQB0ACAAUABAADUANQB3ADAAcgBkADEAMgAzACEAIAAvAEEARABEADsAbgBlAHQAIAB1AHMAZQByACAAcwBlAGMAYQB1AGQAaQB0ACAALwBhAGMAdABpAHYAZQA6AHkAZQBzADsAbgBlAHQAIABsAG8AYwBhAGwAZwByAG8AdQBwACAAYQBkAG0AaQBuAGkAcwB0AHIAYQB0AG8AcgBzACAALwBhAGQAZAAgAHMAZQBjAGEAdQBkAGkAdAA=

Next, we head over to Cyber Chef!

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

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Now we copy the base64 component to the INPUT window:

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We add the “From Base64” operation into our RECIPE!We now need to decode the text!

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The format of the encoding is UTF-16LE (1200)

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With this recipe BAKED we can see the clear text output! Simples!

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