The string you provided is a common Local File Inclusion (LFI)
: This identifies the target file. In this case, the attacker is targeting the AWS configuration file, which typically contains sensitive aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key values. The Targeted Feature: AWS Credentials The string you provided is a common Local
: This is the "magic" step. It instructs PHP to take the contents of the target file and encode them into a Base64 string. The string you provided is a common Local