What methods were used to locate and decompile the confd.plx configuration manager in Sophos UTM?

After querying the PostgreSQL database and finding no configuration data, the researcher used the `cc webadmin port` command to discover that the configuration daemon listens on port 4472. Tracing the process via `netstat` and `/proc/4407/cwd` revealed the working directory `/var/confd` containing `config.pm` and the main program `confd.plx`. Decompilation was achieved by modifying the `bfs_extract.py` script from the 'Sophos UTM Preauth RCE' analysis, resulting in the open-source `SophosUTM_plxDecrypter.py` tool. This static decompilation approach is detailed in the Sophos UTM Exploitation Analysis.