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Locate strings of base64 data in text and decodes them in place. This is a PoC for some secrets scanning work.
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/base64"
"io"
"log"
"os"
"regexp"
"unicode"
)
var b64Regexp *regexp.Regexp
type EncodedSegment struct {
start int
value string
}
func init() {
b64Regexp = regexp.MustCompile(`[\w\/\-\+]{14,}={0,3}`)
}
func encodedSegments(data []byte) []EncodedSegment {
if len(data) == 0 {
return []EncodedSegment{}
}
matchIndices := b64Regexp.FindAllIndex(data, -1)
if matchIndices == nil {
return []EncodedSegment{}
}
segments := make([]EncodedSegment, len(matchIndices))
for i, matchIndex := range matchIndices {
segments[i] = EncodedSegment{
start: matchIndex[0],
value: string(data[matchIndex[0]:matchIndex[1]]),
}
}
return segments
}
func decode(data []byte, segments []EncodedSegment) []byte {
decodedSubstrings := make(map[string][]byte)
for _, segment := range segments {
// No need to decode this one again
if _, skip := decodedSubstrings[segment.value]; skip {
continue
}
dec, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(segment.value)
if err == nil && len(dec) > 0 && isASCII(dec) {
decodedSubstrings[segment.value] = dec
}
dec, err = base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(segment.value)
if err == nil && len(dec) > 0 && isASCII(dec) {
decodedSubstrings[segment.value] = dec
}
}
if len(decodedSubstrings) > 0 {
result := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, len(data)))
start := 0
for _, segment := range segments {
if decoded, ok := decodedSubstrings[segment.value]; ok {
result.Write(data[start:segment.start])
result.Write(decoded)
start = segment.start + len(segment.value)
}
}
result.Write(data[start:])
return result.Bytes()
}
return nil
}
func isASCII(b []byte) bool {
for i := 0; i < len(b); i++ {
if b[i] > unicode.MaxASCII {
return false
}
}
return true
}
func main() {
data, err := io.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
data = decode(data, encodedSegments(data))
_, err = os.Stdout.Write(data)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
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