Deobfuscate PowerShell using MinusOne

Obfuscated PowerShell is everywhere – this post shows how the Reverse Shell Generator produces randomized scripts and how MinusOne deobfuscates them in seconds.

It generates a different PowerShell variant every time you click Generate.

Obfuscated PowerShell

Deobfuscated PowerShell

But here’s the fix 👇

MinusOne – Powershell Deobfuscator – written in Rust by AirbusCERT – cleans it up in seconds

What does it do?

  • It’s an obfuscated PowerShell TCP reverse shell.
  • It creates a System.Net.Sockets.TCPClient to <input ip>:<input port>and reads bytes from the stream
  • It decodes bytes to text with System.Text.ASCIIEncoding, executes via Invoke-Expression.
  • It then returns output plus a fake PS <cwd> > prompt using ASCII.GetBytes() and Write()

References

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