There have been an increasing number of cases of malware infection of the wordpress mu-plugins folder. This case study will be explained.
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Since the WP File Manager plugin is installed on a large number of malware-infected sites, hacking that targets vulnerabilities in this plugin may be a current trend.
Here are some sites online where you can scan your WordPress output for malware (not a vulnerability scan) to see if there is any malicious code mixed in with the HTML of your site.
This section explains how to identify suspicious files (malware files) in the top directory of WordPress.
We will explain about the characters such as \x2e and \161,\u etc. that are commonly found in WordPress malware infected files and how to read them back.
Here is a case study of a WordPress content injection that caused an online casino site to operate on its own server.
This section describes injection attacks in which malicious content is inserted into WordPress pages.
This section describes the character strings that should not be used in the administrator password of a WordPress site.
What kind of attacks can hackers launch on a WordPress site? We will explain about the following
We have compiled a list of precautions for malware removal for a group of WordPress sites spanning multiple domains on a single server.
We will explain why a site is infected with malware in WordPress and moves itself to another site, and why the malicious code comes back after a while, no matter how many times you remove it.
There have been cases where the WordPress staging environment has been contaminated with malware and malware has spread to this site. It is necessary to operate the WordPress staging environment in a security-conscious manner.
In some cases, malware-infected sites may not be able to delete malicious files due to permission errors (write permission errors).
If you find multiple wp-blog-header.php, wp-cron.php, and .htaccess files outside of the public folder on your server in WordPress, be careful. These files are most likely malware that propagates automatically.
Analyze wordpress malware that revives in an instant or changes the permissions (write permissions) of index.php and htaccess files.
WordPress sites, no matter how small, are actually exposed to hacking attacks on a daily basis. We will explain how to detect this WordPress hacking and block IPs.
We will describe a case where the public_html folder was not writable due to malware infecting WordPress, and the permissions could not be changed, making it impossible to remove the malware.
Malware that reads files that do not originally exist and writes them to various folders with “$wp_update_file=” in WordPress is detected very often these days.
