Other file-types
Nowadays, websites usually convert binary data to printable ASCII text in order for the site developers to easily embed this data along with the HTML scripts. Others simply convert data to something that is not easy for humans to read. In this section, we will aim to decode data that has been hidden from plain understandable form. In Chapter 13 Reversing various File-types, we will deal more with how to reverse other File-Types besides Windows and Linux executables. In the meantime, we will just decode obvious data.
Let us head to our browsers and visit www.google.com, at the time of writing (we stored a copy of the source at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Reverse-Engineering/blob/master/ch10/google_page_source.txt), viewing the source would show us a portion that has a b64
encoded text, as in the following screenshot:
Using Cyberchef, a tool which can help decode various types of encoded data including base 64, we can deduce this data to something we understand...