RawGit CDN is Abused by CryptoLoot Cryptominers
Recently, we came across another way to use files from GitHub repositories in malware infections. This time the infections weren’t via GitHub.io, raw.githubusercontent.com, or github.com/<user>/<repository>/raw/ URLs. The new trick involved a third-party service called RawGit that provides a CDN for GitHub files. This is the script that we found injected ... Read More
Hiding Malware Inside Images on GoogleUserContent
If you have been following our blog for a long time, you might remember us writing about malware that used EXIF data to hide its code. This technique is still in use. Let us show you a recent example. Contaminated Pac-Man This code was found at the beginning of a ... Read More
CoinImp Cryptominer and Fully Qualified Domain Names
We are all familiar with the conventional domain name notation, where different levels are concatenated with the full stop character (period). E.g. “www.example.com”, where “www” is a subdomain, “example” is a second level domain, and “com” is a top level domain. However, very few know that there is also a ... Read More
Massive localstorage[.]tk Drupal Infection
After a series of critical Drupal vulnerabilities disclosed this spring, it’s not surprising to see a surge of massive Drupal infections like this one: Massive #Drupal infection that redirects to "Tech Support" scam via "js.localstorage[.]tk" https://t.co/30ZeLIyfza pic.twitter.com/ZCPMepM74k — Denis (@unmaskparasites) April 24, 2018 … with over a thousand compromised sites ... Read More
From Baidu to Google’s Open Redirects
Last week, we described how an ongoing massive malware campaign began using Baidu search result links to redirect people to various ad and scam pages. It didn’t last long. Soon after the publication of that article, the bad actors changed the links to use compromised third-party sites and a couple ... Read More
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 ... Read More
GitHub Hosts Infostealers Part 2: Cryptominers and Credit Card Stealers
A few days ago, we reported that hacked Magento sites had been pushing infostealing malware under the disguise of Flash player updates. In this post, we’ll reveal how this recent attack is related to an extremely hot topic – cryptocurrencies and cryptomining. Infostealer Analysis The malware binary files we found ... Read More
GitHub Hosts Infostealer
A few months ago, we reported on how cybercriminals were using GitHub to load a variety of cryptominers on hacked websites. We have now discovered that this same approach is being used to push binary “info stealing” malware to Windows computers. Infected Magento Sites Recently, we identified hundreds of infected ... Read More
Wikipedia Page Review Reveals Minr Malware
Since December, we’ve seen a number of websites with this funny looking obfuscated script injected at the very top of the HTML code (before the <html> tag). This code is generated by the well-known JJEncode obfuscator, which was once quite popular for encrypting malicious code. Since its popularity dwindled a ... Read More
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 ... Read More
