How can I find malware script running in server/phpfiles/databse etc

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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.


A tool like things like below:

• http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/index.htm
  • Also read the articles by acunetix
    • http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/php-security-1.htm
    • http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/php-security-2.htm
    • http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/php-security-3.htm
    • http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/php-security-4.htm
    • http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/php-security-5.htm
    • http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/php-security-6.htm
• http://www.codescan.com/
• http://pixybox.seclab.tuwien.ac.at/pixy/

and any other similar tools may be of use since they are designed for this specific purpose. I cannot personally comment on them since this is not in the realm of thing we look at in the malware fight. You may want to try posting specific questions in the Software Forum to look for other opinions.