[support] Drupal site hacked - new php files injected

[Christopher Jordan]

Also make sure that ftp access is secure. Monitor which accounts have write
permissions. Always use most secure versions of drupal.
On 29 Oct 2014 03:26, "Ahilan Rajan" <ahilan at vulcantechsoftware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had installed drupal 7.21 to run a simple website on my server. All
> seemed well till one day last week I started getting huge amount of
> spam emails from the server which was hosting the website.
>
> On further analysis of the postfix mail queue on the server, I found
> all the emails were generated by TWO php files (css76.php in the
> modules/panels/js directory and session.php in the
> sites/all/libraries/jquery.cycle directory) . These two files were
> NEWLY created/injected files and seemed bogus containing a number of
> symbols along with a base64_decode return statement.
>
> Clearly my drupal setup had been hacked and someone had successfully
> injected these files to send spam email (amongst other things I
> presume)
>
> I shutdown the site, installed Security Review and Hacked modules and
> carried out their recommendations and also checked my file permissions
> via recommended scripts.
>
> However I am still not sure what the entry point for this hack was in
> my setup and whether I am fully secure yet in this setup. Any
> suggestions or points in this regard would be highly appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Drupal Newbie
>
>
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