Joomla Templates Under Hacking Attack

Introduction

This short post is about recent attack that targets the Joomla! Content Management System's and specifically its templates. We decided that it is worth to spread the word about it after our malware experts resolved numerous similar incidents.

Attack On Joomla! Templates

The file index.php contains a malicious script that calls its main component like the snippet below:

But if you view the site source via the web, the added script just before the head tag looks like this:

Note: For stat88b.php, 88b is a three random hexadecimal number. It can be 012, ab0, etc.

For this file stat88b.ph is obfuscated.

Adding the above script causes redirection to h t tp://freewebstatistics.net/id4.php and download malicious flash player (As of this time, the link is inaccessible)

You can see the decrypted code here: https://malwaredecoder.com/result/ad5855942ef6d37e08d20fbd42aa7318

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