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Rodrigo Escobar

About Rodrigo Escobar

Rodrigo is the Incident Response Team Manager at Sucuri and his diet consists of web-based malware in the morning, backdoors in the afternoon and security research in the evening. Follow him on Twitter at @ipaxdc.

August 15, 2017Rodrigo Escobar

Decoding Complex Malware – Step-by-Step

When cleaning websites, one of the most complicated parts of our job is ensuring we find all backdoors. Most of the time, attackers inject code into different locations to increase the chances of reinfecting the site and maintaining access for as long as possible. Our…

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February 17, 2017Rodrigo Escobar

WordPress Security – Fake TrafficAnalytics Website Infection

Several months ago, our research team identified a fake analytics infection, known as RealStatistics. The malicious Javascript injection looks a lot like tracking code for a legitimate analytics service. RealStatistics…

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December 1, 2016Rodrigo Escobar

Exploited Script in WordPress Theme Sends Spam

Update 11/03/2017: If you want to learn how to secure WordPress, you can read all about it in our new guide. As WordPress continues to grow in popularity, so does…

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May 16, 2016Rodrigo Escobar

Secure Coding: How to Account for Input Sanitization

On average, a website leverages around 18-20 different plugins in its structure. These plugins enhance the website’s functionality and in some instances extend the applications core capabilities. It’s great for…

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February 26, 2015Rodrigo Escobar

Malware Cleanup to Arbitrary File Upload in Gravity Forms

During our regular cleanup process we came across a reinfection case that caught our attention. This particular environment didn’t have anything special or fancy, it was an updated WordPress installation…

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August 9, 2013Rodrigo Escobar

Open Source Backdoor – Copyrighted Under GNU GPL

Malware code can be very small, and the impact can be very severe! In our daily tasks we find a lot of web-based malware that varies in size and impact….

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July 31, 2013Rodrigo Escobar

HideMeBetter – SPAM injection Variant

Compromised sites being injected with SPAM SEO is something we deal very often. A few months ago we wrote about a wave of SPAM injections known as HideMe. However, the…

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July 25, 2012Rodrigo Escobar

Backdoor Tool Kit – Today’s Scary Web Malware Reality

We often talk about the importance of keeping your server clean. You can see it in a number of our articles and presentations, this post will likely drive that point…

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July 23, 2012Rodrigo Escobar

Pharma Hack Backdoor Analyzed – PHP5.PHP

Some of you might remember my last Pharma hack post, Intelligent (Pharma) SPAM Decoded, today I will spend some time looking a different variant of the same infection type but…

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March 30, 2012Rodrigo Escobar

Varying Degrees of Malware Injections Decoded

It is no longer the day of human-readable injections, or even the use of basic encoding schemes like base64. Instead we’re seeing a rise in complex, and in some instances,…

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March 22, 2012Rodrigo Escobar

Intelligent (Pharma) Spam Decoded

We are seeing a rise in the use of intelligent SPAM – a.k.a Pharma Hack – across a number of platforms. We recently found a nice injection that made us salivate,…

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