Add support for scripting language
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Description
### Summary
Ability to use capa against text based script files such as VBScript / JScript etc. Furthermore this could then easily be used for extracted macros and other text-based file
### Motivation
Very common use-case for droppers
## Additional context
Once deobfuscated, these scripts contains plain text strings that can be used to capture their capabilities by matching against strings.
For example a simple check for of string such as "vssadmin.exe", "taskkill" can already provide a very good overview of the capability.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating capa’s input and string-matching paths for executable analysis, then define how VBScript, JScript, extracted macros, and other text-based files should be accepted; done would require tests demonstrating capability matches for strings such as "vssadmin.exe" and "taskkill".
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- reverse-engineering, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100