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Offline baumgrenze

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How Dangerous Is "relellre.4pu.com"
« on: September 29, 2012, 06:11:18 AM »
I tried opening this website

http://www.fpcwhiteville.org/

Several times it was blocked by Avast with the warning "Malicious URL Blocked."

avast! Network Shield has blocked a harmful site

Object:  http://relellre.4pu.com
Infection: URL:Mal
Process: C:\Program Files\SeaMonkey\seamonke.exe

Just now it was allowed to open. Last time I tried there was an attempted redirect to "http://relellre.4pu.com"

Has anyone any idea how harmful this site might be?

Thanks,

baumgrenze
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Offline CraigB

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Re: How Dangerous Is "relellre.4pu.com"
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2012, 07:21:28 AM »
Please dont post live malicious links as there is always bound to be someone that will click on these, change http to hxxp
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Re: How Dangerous Is "relellre.4pu.com"
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2012, 10:52:03 AM »
« Last Edit: September 29, 2012, 11:02:08 AM by Pondus »
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Offline polonus

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Re: How Dangerous Is "relellre.4pu.com"
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2012, 07:28:02 PM »
Like to thank Pondus for reporting this, our friend, !Donovan, for his in-depth analysis of the malcode at hand.
See: http://websiteanalystsresource.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/updated-51la-malware-no-antivirus-detects/
I will add some additional information why the site has been hacked in the first place and got infected through blackhat-seo-spam,.
This malware is mostly coming from China.
Read on (links thanks to Sucuri info, article by  fioravante souza, and zen-cart-wiki and off-course !Donovan's article).

Again a victim from an outdated WP version that made the site vulnerable to a PHP eval hack.
How it was being performed read here: http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2012/05/18/careless-webmasters-as-wordpress-hosting-providers-for-spammers/
and here: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/08/sitecheck-got-blackhat-seo-spam-warning.html
About recovering from hacks: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Recovering_From_Hacks  (info available from Zen Cart® project)
OK, first priority in all these cases is to keep the website software fully updated, patched and checked,

polonus
« Last Edit: September 30, 2012, 08:15:25 PM by polonus »
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