schmidyuc

Was there any resolution to this? We are getting the same error? I see the site is no longer live. Any help would be appreciated.

I had this exact same issue and of course I Googled it like you have, only to have someone tell us that we must not be importing a SQL file and that we may have mistakenly used an HTML or XML file. I have moved about 50 wordpress sites and I was pretty sure that I knew the difference between an HTML extension and a SQL. Although that error was exactly what i have seen in my PHP development days, so perhaps the client did a post with some of that HTML syntax that was displaying? Nope ruled that out because the posts table imported/exported perfectly. Moving along, it would import around half of the db (38 of 72 tables) before giving the error. The export out of phpmyadmin was done twice and import into the new phpmyadmin was also done twice; both times breaking at the same place (redirection_log from the redirection plugin) Luckily for me, i was porting FROM a godaddy server and there was another db backup option. within the hosting control panel you can create a sql backup to the host. i downloaded it and tried to import a third time and had success. It must’ve been the export from phpmyadmin that was the problem. My advice is try a different method of export if possible OR you might need to break up your exports to smaller pieces (YUCK). My db was particularly large (13.9mb).

Aha! strike that post. I was using Previewdns and the actual malware was on the original site, not my testing site. Anytime my test site referenced the old domain and did not find a file, its 404 was a malware website. During the remainder of the dev phase I will disable the contact form plugin.

Yep I too am having the same issue with Contact form 7. I have reinstalled the wordpress files and I have deleted and reinstalled the Contact Form 7 Plugin and the Really Simple Captcha. Any time the plugins are activated a file is loaded with a name similar to this: https://mikapola.ru/yeot?7 and this: https://melaf.ru/jtrepj?7. The site tends to switch it appears as they get shutdown regularly. I get a malware warning when the plugins are loaded and then after i deactivate the plugin it goes away. When you go to the sites directly it will give an infection screen then try to get your to download their software which i am sure is a virus.