Every day we see different website infections. When we receive unusual or interesting cases, our researcher instincts are triggered to investigate the unusual website behavior in order to understand how new infections work. In this case, the odd behavior was the website’s pop-up window claiming there was a missing font. The Unwanted Popup Window A […]
Tag Archives: WordPress Security
Massive WordPress Redirect Campaign Targets Vulnerable tagDiv Themes and Ultimate Member Plugins
This August, we’ve seen a new massive wave of WordPress infections that redirect visitors to unwanted sites. When redirected, users see annoying pages with random utroro[.]com addresses and fake reCAPTCHA images. The messages and content try to convince visitors to verify and subscribe to browser notifications without disclosing the purpose of this behavior. Alternative redirect […]
Fake Plugins with Popuplink.js Redirect to Scam Sites
Since July, we’ve been observing a massive WordPress infection that is responsible for unwanted redirects to scam and ad sites. This infection involves the tiny.cc URL shortener, a fake plugin that has been called either “index” or “wp_update”, and a malicious popuplink.js file. Infected pages typically have these two scripts in the section of the […]
Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns
We’ve all seen sketchy looking emails or texts with malicious links to click on. There are still people who fall for these more obvious types of scams, however, phishing scam messages are designed to be deceiving. They use methods that appear valid or of some urgent matter, encouraging its victim to hand over their data. Phishing […]
Unwanted Ads via Baidu Links
The malware attack that began as an installation of malicious Injectbody/Injectscr WordPress plugins back in February has evolved since then. Some of the changes were documented asUpdates at the bottom of the original blog post, however, every week we see minor modifications in the way they obfuscate the scripts or the files they inject them into. […]
Obfuscation Through Legitimate Appearances
Recently, I analyzed a malware sample provided by our analyst Edward C. Woelke and noticed that it had been placed in a core WordPress folder. This seemed suspicious, since no such core WP file like it exists: ./wp-includes/init.php Deceiving Appearances I started with a standard analysis and my first thought was, this has to be […]
New Guide on How to Clean a Hacked Website
Our mission at Sucuri is to make the internet a safer place and that entails cleaning up hacked websites. We have teams who actively research website vulnerabilities and who are eager to share with you some tips on how to clean your hacked website. We are happy to help the community learn the steps they […]
Unwanted Pop-ups Caused by Injectbody/Injectscr Plugins
On February 8th, 2018, we noticed a new wave of WordPress infections involving two malicious plugins: injectbody and injectscr. These plugins inject obfuscated scripts, creating unwanted pop-up/pop-unders. Whenever a visitor clicks anywhere on an infected web page, they are served questionable ads. Plugin Location The malicious plugins possess a very similar file structure: Injectbody wp-content/plugins/injectbody/ […]
SQLi Vulnerability in YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows visitors and potential customers to make wish lists containing products in the WooCommerce store, and is currently installed on 500,000+ websites. Are You at Risk? This vulnerability […]
Malicious Website Cryptominers from GitHub. Part 2.
Recently we wrote about how GitHub/GitHub.io was used in attacks that injected cryptocurrency miners into compromised websites. Around the same time, we noticed another attack that also used GitHub for serving malicious code. Encrypted CoinHive Miner in Header.php The following encrypted malware was found in the header.php file of the active WordPress theme: There are […]
