a totally unnecessary composer shell

background A silly reverse shell invoked via the Composer Dependency Manager. Source here Composer, which is most probably the most popular PHP dependency manager allows for scripts to run as callbacks on based an event. Callbacks are normally triggered just before or after certain events. It is possible to provide shell commands to the scripts property in the required composer.json file (with a few restrictions), but this method echoes the command that it executes. A slightly more covert approach would be to execute a cleverly named static function in a class included in the codebase. It has to be one that can be autoloaded by composer. ...

September 30, 2015 · 1 min · Leon Jacobs

Hello World! Oh and here's some code!

Introduction Finally! A blog engine I like! :) No exceptionally bloated backend database with plugins that just get hacked. Yup, slim and sleek. And, I get to make posts using Vi :D Want in on this love? Have a look at Octopress . Yes, it was a real ball ache to get setup thanks to the ruby dependencies, but now that were rollin' this should be good :D ...

May 24, 2013 · 3 min · Leon Jacobs