libphpphar 0.0.1

generate PHP phar archives on the fly

libphpphar

A port of PHP's Phar class, in pure python

Installation

pip install libphpphar (not available yet)

Features

• Phar generation with python, no more annoying phar.readonly = Off
• uses libphpserialize for metadata serialization

Example

from datetime import datetime
from io import BytesIO
from phpphar import Phar, PharIOPhar
from phpserialize import PHP_Class

# for (un)serializing the metadatas
class VulnerableObject(PHP_Class):
    pass

with open("app.phar", "rb") as f:
    original = f.read()

archive: Phar = Phar.from_bytes(original)
# simply `archive = Phar()` if you want to start from scratch
print(archive.metadata)
for entry in archive.entries:
    print(f'{entry.permissions}\t{entry.size}\t{datetime.fromtimestamp(entry.timestamp)}\t{entry.name}')
output = bytes(archive)
assert original == output

Important

• the code is written and tested under python 3.9+