Bitdefender shows malware warning for koko-analytics

  • Resolved stefanmeyer2

    (@stefanmeyer2)


    7 months ago

    We are using Koko-Analytics on our site. One of our (German) users shared a warning from Bitdefender pointing to to Koko-Analytics:

    Our repo is clean – we just validated that our files are 100% equal to what was delivered by Koko analytics (and other plugins). So no hack on our side.

    Could you please confirm this is a false positive – or clean up your repo… ??

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Heh, that’s really weird. If you site itself is clean and koko-analytics-collect.php has the correct file content (see here), then yeah, this is surely a false positive.

    Perhaps they think that the way Koko Analytics collect its statistics is suspicious, although I fail to see how it’s any different from the tracking endpoints used by other analytics solutions out there.

    The stated reason is especially weird “SVG.Metamorph.Gen.1”. I did a quick search around the internet and it seems to be targeting attacks like this, but Koko Analytics is doing nothing that even remotely looks like that.

    I am going to report your website to BitDefender as a false positive so they can take a closer look at this and hopefully remove it from their detection algorithm: https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/29358/

    Best,
    Danny

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