Question

Recently I was asked to take over the programming updating task of a php website. Interestingly, when I open the .php files by dreamweaver and Notepad++, I realized the codes are being encripted, just like md5.

Actually, how this be done, while not affecting their functions in Apache environment? And is there any way that we can resume the codes back to normal php and html presentations?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It’s probably something along the lines of this:

eval(base64_decode('gobbledigoog...'));

In that case, just replace the eval by echo:

echo base64_decode('gobbledigoog...');

It’s likely that this will result in more eval('gobbledigoog'), as the code may be encoded several times recursively. In that case, keep doing the above until you get real code.

Have fun.