, by bypassing execution and outputting them in a machine-readable format. Payload Breakdown
$filePath = '/root/.aws/credentials'; $fileContent = readFile($filePath); , by bypassing execution and outputting them in
: Long-term credentials used to authenticate requests to AWS services. $fileContent = readFile($filePath)
: This is the "magic" step. It instructs PHP to take the contents of the target file and encode them into a Base64 string. , by bypassing execution and outputting them in