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Tired of hackers

Monday, March 5th, 2012

So it turns out a bunch of sites on Dreamhost got hacked (including mine), and people are having trouble cleaning things up. I tried to be helpful in the support forum until Dreamhost started moderating (read: indefinitely blocking) my posts. So hopefully I can be of help here instead :)

Here’s a little cleanup script I wrote – there are probably others out there, but I just threw this together and it worked great. My sites are all clean now. Don’t blame me if it breaks something for you though – making a solid backup first is YOUR responsibility!!

sed -i.base64inject.bak 's/<?php.*\?base64_decode.*\?NvZGVkX2NvbnRlbnQuZ21sXzc3NygpOyAgfSAgfSAgb2Jfc3RhcnQoJ21yb2JoJyk7ICB9ICB9"));?>//' `grep -rlI --include=*.php NvZGVkX2NvbnRlbnQuZ21sXzc3NygpOyAgfSAgfSAgb2Jfc3RhcnQoJ21yb2JoJyk7ICB9ICB9 *`

That’s supposed to be all on one line. Just paste it into your Bash shell and let it work. In a nutshell, it will:
1. Recursively locate all infected .php files under the current directory
2. Make backup copies (*.php becomes *.php.base64inject.bak)
3. Clean them!

Once you’re confident the cleanup was successful, you can wipe out those backup copies with this one:

find . -name '*.php.base64inject.bak' -exec rm {} \;

In the forum, Sparker pointed out that the base64 code injected into his pages was a bit different.  You can try replacing that base64 blob in my script (“NvZG…ICB9″) with whatever ugliness you’ve got in your files.

Update: Another forum poster mentioned an alternative cleanup tool.  I haven’t tried it myself, but it sounds promising, and might be easier to use than my scripts.

MichaelKerley.net Launched

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Welcome to MichaelKerley.net, the new home of Pipes, Kornhornio’s California DMV Test, and Kornhornio’s Tetris (and some other new stuff that will be coming soon)!

This new site is intended to be a bit more interactive, so I wanted to get it up and running as early as possible. I’m still in the process of moving everything over from kornhornio.net, so that page will stay around for a while.

Thanks for visiting
- Mike