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CryptoPHP a week later: more than 23.000 sites affected

ID: 0fcc7805-d354-5f88-8eba-9eb172b5b064

STIX ID: report--0fcc7805-d354-5f88-8eba-9eb172b5b064

Feed Name: Fox-IT blog

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2014-11-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

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**Executive summary:** Fox-IT documents the CryptoPHP campaign in which backdoored WordPress/Joomla/Drupal plugins and themes deploy a PHP backdoor (social*.png) that communicates with C2 infrastructure; sinkhole data showed 23,693 unique IPs contacting C2, a new backdoor SHA1 was observed, and the post supplies detection scripts, IOCs and removal/recovery guidance.

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