"Site has been compromised" Wordpress hijacking problem

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Kaari, Sep 2, 2012.

  1. Kaari

    Kaari Private E-2

    My Wordpress site has somehow been hijacked and Google is saying that the "Site has been compromised" we have disappeared from the search results.

    The site was very well ranked before so this is a disaster for us.

    When you search for the actual name of the site on Google it shows up in the search results but the headlines are all about buying pharmaceutical drugs and if you look at the preview in the window next to the link it is not our site but some sort of spam site. But if you click on the link it goes to our site.

    I found in the index.php a line of code that was suspect and I deleted it. Then some of it disappeared for a day but now it's back, and I cannot find the code to get rid of.

    I desperately need someone to help me find the problem.
     
    Kaari, Sep 2, 2012
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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Problems like this are really more of a vulnerability issue and not truly malware. How people write their website code, how old/unupdated the software they write it with, and how secure the servers that host it are really the areas to look at. Issues here are commonly referred to as code injection ( see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_injection ) The things we do in this forum are not going to find problems in your code. None of these malware scanners will since they are not design for this purpose.

    You are going to need to have a very good webpage developer check the code for security issues and you need to verify that all software being used has been updated to include all security patches. In addition, you need to make sure that the server hosting the website also has been fully updated.

    Also since you stated it has been previously hacked, you should attempt to find out how it was hacked last time so you can verify that they security issues have been resolved.
     
    TimW, Sep 2, 2012
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