Collaborate Disseminate
During malware analysis, we regularly find variations of this injected script on various compromised websites: .
The variable “_0x446d” assigns hex encoded strings in different positions in the array. If we get the ASCII representation of the variable… Continue reading Legacy Mauthtoken Malware Continues to Redirect Mobile Users
WordPress released version 5.5.2 yesterday, which fixed a reflected XSS vulnerability we reported earlier this year. The root cause of this issue is a bug in the way WordPress determines a user’s current page, and which may cause a few other problems … Continue reading Reflected XSS in WordPress v5.5.1 and Lower
A PHP shell containing multiple functions can easily consist of thousands of lines of code, so it’s no surprise that attackers often reuse the code from some of the most popular PHP web shells, like WSO or b374k.
After all, if these popular (and readi… Continue reading P.A.S. Fork v. 1.0 — A Web Shell Revival
We often see hackers reusing the same malware, with only a few new adjustments to obfuscate the code so that it is more difficult for scanning tools to detect.
However, sometimes entirely new attack tools are created and deployed by threat actors who … Continue reading R_Evil WordPress Hacktool & Malicious JavaScript Injections
The responsibility of ensuring that a website is protected falls on the website owner, but the security expectation may fall on the web service provider too.
As a professional, you are the trusted party and first point of contact.
Much of what your cl… Continue reading Opening the Conversation about Website Security
Our free SiteCheck tool helps website owners remotely scan their website to detect malware infections, blacklisting status, website errors, and other anomalies. Scanning a website’s external HTML source code provides immediate results, without the nee… Continue reading SiteCheck Malware Report: September Summary
A large majority of the malware we find on compromised websites are backdoors that allow an attacker to maintain unauthorized access to the site and execute whatever commands they want.
Another common scenario includes malware which is directly inject… Continue reading Backdoor Shell Dropper Deploys CMS-Specific Malware
PHP hack tools are created and used by attackers to help automate frequent or tedious tasks. During a recent investigation, we came across a hack tool used to simplify the process of sending predefined HTML emails to a list of email addresses.
The too… Continue reading GFX Xsender Hack Tool: A Spam Mailer
Malicious pop-ups and redirects have become two extremely common techniques used by attackers to drive traffic wherever they want.
During a recent investigation, we came across an obfuscated pop-up script leveraging baidu[.]com search results to redi… Continue reading Malicious Pop-up Redirects Baidu Traffic
In an attempt to avoid detection, attackers and malware authors are always experimenting with different methods to obfuscate their malicious code.
During a recent investigation, we came across an interesting backdoor that was leveraging encoding along… Continue reading Backdoor Obfuscation: tempnam & URL Encoding