👉 The gzip weapon is an open-source tool designed for generating malicious payloads that exploit vulnerabilities in web servers and applications by compressing payloads before sending them to the target, making them harder to detect. It works by encoding payloads using gzip or deflate compression algorithms, which can reduce the size of the data significantly, thereby evading basic heuristics used by intrusion detection systems and firewalls that often flag large payloads. This compression technique can also cause delays in network traffic, potentially leading to performance degradation or triggering anomaly-based detection mechanisms. The gzip weapon is typically crafted to target specific vulnerabilities, such as those in HTTP servers or web application frameworks, and can be used to bypass security measures that rely on payload size as a primary defense mechanism.
