rsbkb (Rust blackbag)

What is it?

rsbkb has multiple tools which are designed to be called directly (through symlinks, like busybox). This allows various operations on data to be chained easily like CyberChef but through pipes.

It also includes various practical tools like entropy or a timestamp decoder.

Quick start

1. install with cargo install rsbkb
2. run rsbkb to list applets
3. run rsbkb help <applet> to learn more
4. optionally create symlinks to call applets directly (e.g.: ln -s rsbkb slice)

Examples

Read 10 bytes from /etc/passwd starting at offset 0x2f, then xor with 0xF2, encode it in URL-safe base64 and finally URL encode it:

$ slice /etc/passwd 0x2f +10 | xor -x f2 | b64 -u | urlenc
l5%2DdnMjdh4GA3Q%3D%3D

Various examples:

$ unhex 4141:4141
AA:AA
$ echo -n'4141:4141' | unhex
AA:AA
$ crc32 '41 41 41 32'
e60ce752
$ echo -n '41 41 41 32' | crc32
e60ce752
$ echo test | b64 | urlenc
dGVzdAo%3D
$ tsdec 146424672000234122
2065-01-01T00:00:00.0234122Z
$ tsdec 0
1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
$ rsbkb bofpatt 60
Aa0Aa1Aa2Aa3Aa4Aa5Aa6Aa7Aa8Aa9Ab0Ab1Ab2Ab3Ab4Ab5Ab6Ab7Ab8Ab9
$ rsbkb bofpattoff -b 0x41623841
Decoded pattern: Ab8A (big endian: true)
Offset: 54 (mod 20280) / 0x36
$ echo -n tototutu | rsbkb entropy
0.188
$ bgrep -x 454c460201 /bin/ls
0x1
$ bgrep "\x45\x4c..\x01" /bin/ls
0x1
$ findso -p /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ -r memcpy /bin/ls
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
$ findso -l /etc/ld.so.conf -a memcpy
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.6
[...]

How to use

Build it / Get it

$ cargo rustc --release

or:

• get the binary from the release page.
• get the latest artifact from the Actions page.

Usage

• All tools take values as an argument on the command line or if not present, read stdin
• Tool name can be specified on the command line rsbkb TOOL
• Or can be called busybox-style: ln -s rsbkb unhex ; unhex 4142

for i in $(rsbkb list) ; do ln -s rsbkb $i ; done

Included tools

• hex: hex encode
• unhex: decode hex data (either in the middle of arbitrary data, or strictly)
• b64: base64 encode (use -u or --URL for URL-safe b64)
• d64: base64 decode (use -u or --URL for URL-safe b64)
• urlenc: url encode
• urldec: url decode
• xor: xor (use -x to specify the key, in hex, -f to specify a file)
• crc: all CRC algorithms implemented in the Crc crate
• crc16: CRC-16
• crc32: CRC-32
• bofpatt / boffpattoff: buffer overflow pattern generator / offset calculator
• tsdec: decode various timestamps (Epoch with different resolutions, Windows FILETIME)
• slice: slice of a file: :
• slice input_file 10 will print input_file from offset 10 on stdout.
• slice input_file 0x10 0x20 will do the same from 0x10 to 0x20 (excluded).
• slice input_file 0x10 +0xFF will copy 0xFF bytes starting at 0x10.
• slice input_file -0x10 will the last 0x10 bytes from input_file
• entropy: entropy of a file
• bgrep: simple binary grep
• findso: find which ELF shared library (.so) exports a given name/function
• inflate and deflate: raw inflate/deflate compression, fault tolerant and with optional Zlib header support
• base: easy radix conversion of big integers
• escape: backslash-escape special characters in strings (generic, single quote, shell, bash, bash single)
• unescape: unescape \ escaped chars in strings

Getting help

$ rsbkb help
rsbkb 1.7.0 (Rust BlackBag) - by Raphaël Rigo <devel@syscall.eu>

Usage: rsbkb [APPLET]

APPLETS:
  list        list applets
  hex         hex encode
  unhex       hex decode
  urlenc      URL encode
  urldec      URL decode
  crc16       compute CRC-16
  crc32       compute CRC-32
  crc         flexible CRC computation
  b64         base64 encode
  d64         base64 decode
  bofpattoff  buffer overflow pattern offset finder
  bofpatt     buffer overflow pattern generator
  xor         xor value
  entropy     compute file entropy
  slice       cut slices from file or stdin
  bgrep       binary grep
  findso      find which .so implements a given function
  tsdec       timestamp decoder
  deflate     (raw) deflate compression
  inflate     (raw) inflate decompression
  base        convert integer between different bases
  escape      backslash-escape input strings
  unescape    (backslash) unescape input strings
  help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

$ rsbkb help slice
cut slices from file or stdin

Usage: rsbkb slice <file> <start> [end]

Arguments:
  <file>   file to slice, - for stdin
  <start>  start of slice, relative to end of file if negative
  [end]    end of slice: absolute, relative to <start> if prefixed with +, relative to end of file if negative

Credits and heritage

This is a Rust reimplementation of some tools found in emonti's rbkb, itself a Ruby reimplementation of Matasano's BlackBag.