Decoding Gzip/Deflate issues

asked 2017-11-19 11:53:48 +0000

sikocan gravatar image

updated 2017-11-19 12:23:43 +0000

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I'm trying to read the contents of packets sent from an Android device and some packets where Burp can detect Gzip compression, it shows the contents, however there are often times I see packets with this information and Burp can't decode or can't detect compression. How can I see the contents of this compressed packet contents?

The following is from a Android phone, manufacturer I suspect is collecting/spying on it's users with the activity of the phone to a head office, I'm curious to know what information it collects. Any help is appreciated. I've tried copying and pasting the compressed portion to a file and extracting using decompression software :) It didn't work.

For example this packet:

OST /tracker-api/tracker/trackerLog HTTP/1.1
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 6.0; en-au; 5044T Build/MRA58K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Host: tracker-global.tclclouds.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Length: 579

e=v3&data=gDm8W6MSWo42svBtqRQ56SCoDX4m_kjv9HH9hwM5iF1QyXHfvGM5t-RI1vV3uOeSOuGgdCj64MxW
193i3cdbzbnYbixJUZtVgICZ1Mygh6ysINqwCUq_S22ToPgoPPmi9MWJ3Eft7hGWVoanpfHwDH4e
ZwYhm4ovkDe8awCTTRV_nLhzogLuRBRRCLBVCJsGWSe9UoT4O8vSzeraqlYFQOTK55B1UjrYQHmm
laVLUPzz9OXetIC77b1Z5ngW32binYxrCir_tB3waUA-QEQy2Ht2c1TMc9dlVaC58i0O3-Sw406R
CsXZGjHoScC44NavPoDhk_Kwo92U-bvee5m91HuXms91A9xBPzsrz56YU5LA5ege6R0yI7xrwpEA
SYxLO8gyqHuSiF-yid34nB0C1wtleV9wEytfhVR0QiySXp60wL4n_8ZRJHZ9IYhmz-TdK6Hyg1st
74zvtTzWYOwp9fi2PAoc3BJawBbNgqSc8w38pe3MIdW21DCSj0M7_J8IOZJj1yYaYEprMuucrWzr
Qg==
&expect_server_compress=1

Decoding Gzip/Deflate issues

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