unknown (malicious?) code and file in public dir (Laravel 5.8, apache/cPanel)

I have a Laravel 5.8 app in a server running Apache/2.4.53 (cPanel) and PHP 7.4 (ea-php74) and i have VPS root WHM/cPanel access there. as any Laravel project, the "public" directory is web accessible and the subdomain points to … Continue reading unknown (malicious?) code and file in public dir (Laravel 5.8, apache/cPanel)