{"id":38097,"date":"2020-04-09T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superbthemes.com\/?p=38097"},"modified":"2024-01-28T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T13:05:03","slug":"how-to-find-hidden-malware-on-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.superbthemes.com\/website\/how-to-find-hidden-malware-on-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Find Hidden Malware On Your WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Despite growing awareness and preventive measures, malware attacks continue to compromise websites all across the globe. The overall cost of malware attacks has increased to $2 trillion and is expected to touch $6 trillion by the year 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent years, hackers are designing and deploying more complex and sophisticated malware that can inflict more damage on websites – especially WordPress websites. Some of the common malware threats and hacks include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Pharma hacks<\/strong>, a sophisticated form of invisible hacking where hackers take advantage of your SEO practices to get your ranked pages to rank for their products – mostly banned drugs and prescription drugs. They do this by inserting SEO keywords into your website, creating malicious files\/folders in your WordPress installation, or inserting suspicious links into text files. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
Backdoors<\/strong>, another covert form of attack where unauthorized users gain admin access to your account and corrupt your backend files with malicious or harmful code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
SQL Injection<\/strong>, where malicious SQL code is inserted into data applications and is used to steal sensitive data from databases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Redirects<\/strong>, where legitimate site visitors are redirected to an unsolicited site where they end up downloading malicious files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Phishing<\/strong>, a form of a data breach where sensitive information like user credentials or credit card data, is obtained from users through deceptive websites or emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
With all these types of malware threats, it’s important to be extra cautious when dealing with one on your business website. If your site is attacked by any of them, you may face some serious consequences, such as damaged search engine rankings. Unfortunately, when this happens, your site may experience a significant drop in web traffic and, in turn, lose many potential customers. To prevent these things from ruining your website and business as a whole, you need to familiarize yourself with how to find malware and address it right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But how are you supposed to do that? Read on to learn some of the best ways to search for hidden malware on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steps to Detect and Remove Malware<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
With so many different types of malware, how can you effectively detect hidden malware and avoid such attacks? You can do this by following these basic steps, carefully and thoroughly: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Detect malware on your website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Clean the malware (manually or with a security plugin).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Protect or harden your website to save it from future attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s look at each of these steps in more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 1 \u2013 Detect any Malware on Your Website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The hard fact is – detecting a malware infection on your website can be tough. However, here are a few tell-tale signs that point towards a hacked website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Your site shows a sudden increase in loading time, or a drastic decrease in the incoming traffic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Your web host provider could intimate you of a possible malware infection. Alternatively, your website could be temporarily suspended by your web hosting company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Your website may no longer be appearing in the Google search results page, indicating that it could be blacklisted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Your incoming traffic is being redirected to an unsolicited or phishing website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Your website admin notes a large number of unknown plugins or users added to your account.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Searching for your website on Google is displaying Japanese characters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n