Annoying Coding Methods (solved)
So I finally figured out how to decrypt the insanity of the footer for this theme.
To see what I started out with see the first post — > Annyoing Coding Methods
Simply changing the eval() to echo just printed out a ?> because I found out the first thing in the code was a ?>, so it ended the PHP tag and simply printed out the ending ?> tag.
So… I decided to remove all PHP tags… like <?php <? and ?> with:
<?php
$remove = array(">","<");
$replace = array(">","<");
$string = 'FREAKISHLY LONG ENCRYPTED STRING HERE';
echo str_replace($remove,$replace,gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode($string))));
# echo str_replace($remove,$replace,gzinflate(base64_decode($string)));<br />
?>
So that worked liked I hoped it would, BUT it prints out nearly the exact same thing I had to begin with, just with another random string. So I keep replacing cryptic code in the $string variable over and over. The output varied from eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode($string)))); to eval(gzinflate(base64_decode($string))); Hence the extra (commented) line in the above code. I probably repeated this method at least 50 times until I actually saw the real source code. (And yes, after doing that I realize that I could have just written a little code to loop through it, but I had no idea how many iterations it would take)
The string of data got smaller and smaller each time. The last string before the real code is only about a fifth of the length of the original:
Good site I “Stumbledupon” it today and gave it a stumble for you.. looking forward to seeing what else you have..later
Tahnks for posting