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observed · 2026-10-12 14:53:03 UTC

Recently I read this excellent post by Evan Sultanik about exploiting pickle files on Trail of Bits. There was also a DefCon30 talk about backdooring pickle files by ColdwaterQ. This got me curious to try out backdooring a pickle file myself. Pickle files - the surprises Surprisingly Python pickle files are compiled programs running in a VM called the Pickle Machine (PM). Opcodes control the flow, and when there are opcodes there is often fun to be had.

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intelligence_src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

observed · 2026-10-12 14:53:03 UTC

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