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Wordpress Pharma Hack


I recently removed a Pharma Hack from a clients wordpress site, there were no obvious symptoms that there was anything wrong, so here's some tips:

First, see if you are infected by typing the following into google

inurl: www.mydomainname.com cheap

or
inurl: www.mydomainname.com buy


if the google results show links with your domain going to various drugs like viagra or cialis then you have been hacked.

How to Fix Wordpress Pharma Hack

every hack attack can be different but in this case the hackers code was found in the wp-config.php file, two long lines of encrypted code starting with:

$GLOBALS['_1924382074_']=Array(base64_decode('
$GLOBALS['_677705735_']=Array(base64_decode('

So search through all your php files looking for "base64_decode". It was safe to remove both lines of code, then wait for google to retrawl (about a week) and then problem is fixed
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