Michael Schierl
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Those stagers will encrypt the initial stage with a 128-bit RC4 key and the stage length with a XOR key. Both keys are embedded in the stager. This should provide good evasion capabilities in addition to some protection against MITM reversing (if the stager is sent a different route, like in an executable on an USB key). Note that, from a cryptanalyst's standpoint, it is a bad idea to reuse the same stager (or stagers with the same RC4 and XOR keys) more than once since an identical key will result in an identical keystream and make correlation attacks easy. But I doubt that matters in practice. Also note that since communication after the initial statging is not encrypted, these stagers should be used in combination with additional encryption support in the payloads (like Meterpreter).
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