How to remove click ads from fresh WordPress site? [closed]

WordPress doesn’t include ads of any kind, so there’s no standard process for removing them. Possible reasons you could be seeing ads are: Your host is adding them, possibly as a condition of a cheap/free hosting plan. You installed a pirated theme or plugin that contains malicious code. Your website has been hacked in some … Read more

unable to remove malware from wp website [closed]

Over the years, I have developed a process/procedure to recover a hacked site. While backups are good, it’s not always clear that a backup is ‘clean’ and not hacked. My process includes reinstalling all code (WP, plugins, themes) manually (themes/plugins via FTP from known good source, WP via the ‘update again’ on the Update page), … Read more

Decoded malware code [closed]

The malware stores an array of PHP fragments to execute at the bottom of its own file, delimited and encoded using the MD5 hash of the filename. It has a specific GUID to control it; on start up it checks all POST and cookie values for properly-encoded commands: PHP serialized arrays, XORed with both the … Read more

malware undetectable by multiple scans

There are many ways to infect a site – and many ways to hide that infection from the ‘popular’ security plugins. One way to detect malicious code is via a file-hash-compare function. You may need to write your own though (I did, but it’s not perfect). That function would compare each file’s hash with a … Read more

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