The second type is encoding, the encoder encodes the PHP script to some encrypted text (I don’t want to go into details here, but that’s the general idea). Those encoded scripts requires a loader, this loader decodes the script and runs it via the PHP Interpreter. Those loaders are simply PHP extensions. Example of those are ZendGuard and IonCube.

It is not hard to write a PHP extension, but it wont be adapted easily with most online hosts. Maybe Enterprise! But again, maintaining cross platforms is not an easy task.

Since IonCube and ZendGuard are widely supported with most hosts some came up with the idea of creating a hybrid obfuscator. The idea is to encrypt the code and have a php script to decrypt. But the decrypting script is encoded using ZendGuard or Ioncube. An example of such is phpCipher.

Last year in my post I wrote that I will be writing an encoder, I have been very busy since then. But last week I had the chance to start writing my encoder. I have most of the logic done. Once I am done writing my loader script, I will start writing the desktop app to encode the scripts. I am planing to release it on Mac App Store and online on my website for a small amount of money.

On a side note, I may offer my source for sale.

This link for my disclaimer: http://almahdi.cc/disclaimer/

Love can be applied to everything, you can love a person, or a computer or even a pet. But I will define love based on loving people.

When I chat with my friends, we joke and we say that love is a band-pass-filter. What it means is that when we love, we only see what we like. Love is like glasses with filters, that makes us not only see what we like, it may even makes us like things we didn’t like.

Love is the butterfly effect when you see the person you love. Love is when you feel alone without this person around you, even though everyone else is around.

In love, beauty doesn’t count. It doesn’t matter if the person you love is beautiful/handsome or not, because love makes everything beautiful.

Love is when you want to spend the rest of your life with this person with no regrets! Love is happiness. Love is the most beautiful thing in this life. Love is what makes us. We can’t live without love…

Sometimes people mix love with sex, this is not true! Sex has nothing to do with love. Sex is a physical thing while love is a feeling. Attraction is not love. Liking an attitude is not love.

Brief Technical Information: Quoted from Wikipedia:

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is an enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity.

zain and Batelco provide HSPA+, however, the phone has to switch to it when it requires high speed access, but on Viva, HSPA is the default.

A basic overview:
Jailbreaking the device basicly means getting root access to the device. It’s a Unix term to get administrative access to the device. Allowing you to install apps and customize the system.

What is a patched app?
Patched app is like saying infected with a virus.

What is my argument?
Apps can be patched and they have root access to your device. This means they can collect data and information about you with you knowing it.

You can say trust the community and stuff like that. But that’s what I say.

I am posting a sample code on how to parse files line by line using MySQL.

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ‘path/to/my/file’ into table [table-name]

(@line)

set field1 = SUBSTR(@line,1,10),

field2 = SUBSTR(@line, 11,12),

field3 = SUBSTR(@line, 48,19)

Now, what I did, is I just parsed text, since the file was not delimited but it had fixed width.

Keeping in mind that your Mac OSX defragments any file less than 20MB automagically, however, large files get fragmented, to defragment, you can move the files to external disk and move them back. However, this takes time and requires you to have an external disk to backup the files.

My Attempt to understand its way of encoding to see if it worth the USD45.

Source PHP Code:

<?php
/* -------------------------------------------------
               www.ZenCrypt.com
             ZenCrypt simple demo

User Manual: http://www.zencrypt.com/INFO/ZenCrypt_PHP_Encoder.pdf
------------------------------------------------- */

//{{{PHP_INSERT_a1}}}
// Encoded chunk of code will be inserted here by ZenCrypt
// Encoded version - test_encoded.php was generated by running ZenCrypt with this command:
//    php -f zencrypt.php infile=test_plain.php outfile=test_encoded.php enccycles=10 stripcomments=yes
//{{{/PHP_INSERT_a1}}}

// This code client will see
$encrypted_number = 52728;

$resulted_number = ZEN_encrypt ($encrypted_number);
echo "\nEncrypted number=$resulted_number";
$resulted_number = ZEN_decrypt ($resulted_number);
echo "\nDecrypted number=$resulted_number";

//{{{PHP_ENCODE_a1}}}
// This part will be encoded and moved above (in between PHP_INSERT tags).
// We do not want to expose these "super secret" encryption functions to the clients.
function ZEN_encrypt ($input)
{
return ($input+5432);
}

function ZEN_decrypt ($input)
{
return ($input-5432);
}
//{{{/PHP_ENCODE_a1}}}

?>

Encoded Code:

<?php
/* -------------------------------------------------
               www.ZenCrypt.com
             ZenCrypt simple demo

User Manual: http://www.zencrypt.com/INFO/ZenCrypt_PHP_Encoder.pdf
------------------------------------------------- */

$juTSvfNAGsrLGell='=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';$QynVyKBtA_laXYfjkJ=';))))yyrTYefTNAsiFGhw$(ireegf(rqbprq_46rfno(rgnysavmt(ynir';$LoMOYHmyNmPlxD=strrev($QynVyKBtA_laXYfjkJ);$lUETluMevSaLCDV=str_rot13($LoMOYHmyNmPlxD);eval($lUETluMevSaLCDV);

// This code client will see
$encrypted_number = 52728;

$resulted_number = ZEN_encrypt ($encrypted_number);
echo "\nEncrypted number=$resulted_number";
$resulted_number = ZEN_decrypt ($resulted_number);
echo "\nDecrypted number=$resulted_number";

?>

My Attempt to Decode the Code:

<?php
/* ————————————————-
www.ZenCrypt.com
ZenCrypt simple demo

User Manual: http://www.zencrypt.com/INFO/ZenCrypt_PHP_Encoder.pdf
————————————————- */

$juTSvfNAGsrLGell=’=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’;$QynVyKBtA_laXYfjkJ=’;))))yyrTYefTNAsiFGhw$(ireegf(rqbprq_46rfno(rgnysavmt(ynir’;$LoMOYHmyNmPlxD=strrev($QynVyKBtA_laXYfjkJ);$lUETluMevSaLCDV=str_rot13($LoMOYHmyNmPlxD);eval($lUETluMevSaLCDV);

//print  gzinflate(base64_decode(strrev($juTSvfNAGsrLGell)));

$str=str_replace(“eval”,”\$str=”, gzinflate(base64_decode(strrev($juTSvfNAGsrLGell))));
eval($str);
print $str.”\n–\n”;
//print “–\n”;
for($icount=0; $icount<17; $icount++) {
$str=str_replace(“eval”,”\$str=”, $str);
print $str.”\n$icount–\n”;
eval($str);
print $str.”\n$icount–\n”;
}

// This code client will see
$encrypted_number = 52728;

$resulted_number = ZEN_encrypt ($encrypted_number);
echo “\nEncrypted number=$resulted_number”;
$resulted_number = ZEN_decrypt ($resulted_number);
echo “\nDecrypted number=$resulted_number”;
?>

Conclusion:

What I see that it doesn’t worth the the USD45. Maybe if it was encoded with ZendGuard or ionCube and produces a file that requires a PHP Loader. Just like PHPCipher.
However, from this attempt. I thought that I will write my own encoder. It will be using the same method, however, the output will be encoded in both ZendGuard and ionCube. Stay tuned!

The agreement is that Marwan will do most of the development, I will be maintaining the projects. I will be responsible of the packaging and bug fixing and some development. Marwan will be doing the core of the applications.

We will be registering a new domain and it will be dedicated for our joint projects. We have lots of ideas, so wish us luck!!