This article describes my investigations of the Java-Script obfuscation currently used by the Blackhole Exploit Kit. My intend was to write some smal scripts to automatically deobfuscate the Java-Script without using Java-Script itself. Using Java-Script with a little help would be an easy task because you only have to identify the point where the „eval“-fucntion is called and repalce it with an alert- or document-write function. My intend was to fully automate the deobfuscation to used it by an mail-scanner or a proxy-server.
I an former article I investigated the LinkedIn Spam and showed an example of a landing page assure_numb_engineers.php I downloaded from the server. Thanks to the daily spam and some web-sites listing the active servers I could get my hand on some more landing pages. Most of them looked like the example below.
In the next few paragraphs I will explain how the decoding and encoding works and develop explain a solution for decoding without deciphering the javascripts of a certain class.
