Pharma hack warning from plugin files?

  • Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    11 years ago

    Hi,

    I switched to WordPress a while ago after my former non-WP site was subjected to the infamous pharma hack. I have a couple of automated scripts that look for hacked files, and I decided I should run them periodically as a precaution.

    I just did that and the “Looking for bad guys” script reports:

    Searching for files with suspicious names…
    Files encountered = 5639, Matching regex and processed = 0; Directories encountered = 624, Matched and processed = 624

    Searching for files with names related to WordPress pharma hack…
    2013-11-06 02:28:12 /[redacted]/plugins/broken-link-checker/includes/admin/db-schema.php is most likely a pharma hack.
    2013-11-06 02:28:12 /[redacted]/plugins/broken-link-checker/includes/admin/db-upgrade.php is most likely a pharma hack.
    Files encountered = 5639, Matching regex and processed = 2; Directories encountered = 624, Matched and processed = 624

    I inspected those files, comparing them to the same files from a freshly downloaded copy of the plugin. The file sizes are identical and I can’t see anything that looks suspicious or altered.

    Has anyone encountered this before? I’m not sure if this is a false positive or what.

    Thanks!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/broken-link-checker/

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