Tag: hph

Security, Tutorials, WordPress

The .hph extension trick: how WordPress malware survives cleanups by shadowing .php files

Four nearly identical white binders standing in a wooden box, suggesting how easy it is to overlook a slightly differently-named file in a directory listing (photo: Mateusz Dach / Pexels)

You clean a WordPress malware infection. You find every .php file with the suspicious signature, quarantine it, restore from backup, harden the site. Three weeks later the same backdoor is back. Same filename, same content, same behavior. You’re sure you …