Most authors of website malware usually rely on the same tricks making it easy for malware researchers to spot obfuscated code, random files that don’t belong, and malicious lines injected at the top of a file. However, it can become difficult when the malware is buried deep within the lines of code on normal files.. […]
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Website Security Analysis: A “simple” piece of malware
For regular readers of this blog, there is one constant that pops up over and over: malware gets more complex. When malware researchers, like myself, unlock new obfuscated code, it’s a signal to the black hats that they need to up their game. For me, figuring out their new hack attempts and then putting the […]
WordPress Plugin Alert — LoginWall Imposter Exposed
When you work with malware for a while, you start to become very good at pattern recognition. A couple sites in every hundred cleaned might be infected in a similar way and remembering the initial problem helps to quickly solve the problem for the current site. You might not know exactly why something seems fishy […]
Highly Effective Joomla Backdoor with Small Profile
It feels like every day we’re finding gems, or what appear to be gems to us. We try to balance the use of the term, but I can’t lie, these are truly gems. The things they are doing, and by they I mean the attackers, are in some instance ingenious. I think you’ll agree that […]
