How could I store strings in the format "\x00\xc1\xeb" into a variable encoded/converted into bytes?
It seems python has trouble parsing the backslashes correctly.
What I've tried:
bytes_input = bytes(input('enter byte string'), 'utf-8')
I'm trying to store shellcode into the variable 'bytes_input' I think the backslashes are causing issues because they're being interpreter as escape string.
When I print the variable 'bytes_input' the output is:
b'"\\x00\\xc1\\xeb"'
The intended output should be:
b"\x00\xc1\xeb"
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Find my code also for reference.
string_input = str(input('Enter string:'))
string_value = string_input if string_input else '\\x00\\xc1\\xeb'
print("Input String: {}".format(string_value))
encoded_value = string_value.encode('utf-8')
print(encoded_value.decode('unicode-escape').encode("ISO-8859-1"))