What problem does it solve?
Manually identifying capabilities and deobfuscating strings in unknown native binaries before deep reverse engineering is slow and inefficient, wasting valuable analyst time on irrelevant code paths.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Capability Identification: Uses Mandiant capa to map binary capabilities (crypto, network, anti-debug, file operations) with exact hit addresses for targeted decompilation in Ghidra or IDA.
- Obfuscated String Recovery: Retrieves hidden, stack-built, or encoded strings (URLs, encryption keys, C2 endpoints) using FLOSS for PE/shellcode samples and native tooling for ELF/.so files.
- Use Case: When analyzing an unknown malicious .so library from an Android app, run this triage first to locate all crypto and network-related functions, so you can focus decompiler efforts only on the relevant code sections instead of the entire binary.
Quick Start
Use the capa-triage skill to perform a quick capability and string triage on the unknown native library 'libsuspect.so' extracted from an unpacked Android APK.