CyberChef is a powerful web application designed to perform a wide variety of encoding, encryption, compression, and data analysis tasks. Known as the 'Cyber Swiss Army Knife', it provides a simple drag-and-drop interface for creating 'recipes' that process data through multiple operations.
Key Features:
- Vast Operation Library: Offers hundreds of operations categorized for easy discovery, including encoding (Base64, Hex), encryption (AES, DES, RC4), compression (Gzip), hashing (MD5, SHA), and more.
- Intuitive Interface: The drag-and-drop recipe builder allows users to chain operations together without coding.
- Multi-Tab Input/Output: Supports multiple input and output tabs for handling various data streams simultaneously.
- Magic Operation: Automatically detects encoded data and suggests relevant operations.
- Downloadable and Self-Contained: Can be downloaded for offline use, ensuring data privacy and security.
- Deep Linking: Shareable URLs that preserve the entire recipe and input data.
Use Cases:
- Security Analysis: Analyze malware, decode network traffic, and investigate suspicious files.
- Data Transformation: Convert data between different formats, such as timestamps, IP addresses, and character encodings.
- Reverse Engineering: Disassemble shellcode, decrypt data, and analyze binary files.
- Cryptography: Encrypt and decrypt data using various algorithms.
- CTF Challenges: Solve encoding and decoding challenges in Capture The Flag competitions.
