I was able to bring it to the point of memory corruption. It is 3 am where I am now; I will continue in the morning. As a precaution, I configured .htaccess rule.
# BEGIN php2shell-mitigation
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Content-Type} multipart [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>
<If "%{HTTP:Content-Type} =~ /multipart/i">
Require all denied
</If>
# END php2shell-mitigation
I added a rewritecond to ignore multipart before php-fpm receives anything. I did a similar thing for nginx servers. Also in .user.ini added "session.upload_progress.enabled = Off".These two seem to do the trick, but again I am not 1000% sure until tomorrow morning's deeper dive. My eyes are burning, and I can't sleep because of the stress this exploit.