Analyzes malware C2 communication over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, and custom protocols to reverse-engineer beacon patterns, command structures, data encoding, and infrastructure (primary servers, fallback domains, dead drops). Use after reverse engineering reveals network traffic needing protocol analysis or when building detection signatures for a framework like Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, or Sliver.
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