Website Backdoor

Obfuscation Techniques in MARIJUANA Shell “Bypass”

Attackers are always trying to come up with new ways to evade detection from the wide range of security controls…

2 days ago

“Free” Symchanger Malware Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor

In a previous post, I discussed how attackers can trick website owners into installing malware onto a website — granting…

4 days ago

Code Comments Reveal SCP-173 Malware

We sometimes find malware code injections that contain strange code comments, which are normally used by programmers to annotate a…

4 weeks ago

P.A.S. Fork v. 1.0 — A Web Shell Revival

A PHP shell containing multiple functions can easily consist of thousands of lines of code, so it’s no surprise that…

1 month ago

Backdoor Shell Dropper Deploys CMS-Specific Malware

A large majority of the malware we find on compromised websites are backdoors that allow an attacker to maintain unauthorized…

2 months ago

Backdoor Obfuscation: tempnam & URL Encoding

In an attempt to avoid detection, attackers and malware authors are always experimenting with different methods to obfuscate their malicious…

2 months ago

The Hidden PHP Malware that Reinfects Cleaned Files

Website reinfections are a serious problem for website owners, and it can often be difficult to determine the cause behind…

3 months ago

Using assert() to Execute Malware in PHP 7 Environments

Initially released December 2015, PHP 7 introduced a multitude of performance and security improvements. Approximately 43.7% of websites across the…

3 months ago

Smoker Backdoor: Evasion Techniques in Webshell Backdoors

“Smoker Backdoor” is a PHP webshell backdoor that uses hexadecimal and decimal obfuscation in conjunction with the PHP function goto…

4 months ago

PHP Backdoor Obfuscated One Liner

In the past, I have explained how small one line PHP backdoors use obfuscation and strings of code in HTTP…

4 months ago