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#11868 Hacked website by russian IP address

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 05 April 2012 10:36 CDT

user61605
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (reports, blocking, php scanner)
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Some
Joomla! version: (1.5.26)
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (extremeslovenia.com)
Admin Tools version: (2.2.3)

Description of my issue:
My website has been hacked with the following symptoms:
-When I accessed my site I was re-directed to a ???.ru website that tried to install a JS/FakePAV trojan on my pc (MSE detected it and deleted it thankfully)

Steps taken by me so far:
-Take the site offline
-Changed the admin account name and password, also FTP and SQL passwords
-I found that the .htaccess file had been replaced, so I have deleted it and replaced it with one I got from Joomla.com
-I searched the logs for POST commands and found the following "95.163.67.202 - - [04/Apr/2012:07:00:58 +0100] "POST /tmp/jos_ftnq.php HTTP/1.1" 200 162 "
-I secured the tmp folder by moving it out of the htdocs folder and deleted the jos_ftnq.php file in the tmp folder
-Blacklisted the IP address
-I uninstalled the 2 plug-ins that I had installed about a week ago (social networking plug-in and language translator)
-I installed AdminTools PRO and ran Web App Firewall, DB prefix editor, Fix Permissions and Clean Tmp utilities

Following issues remain:
-Runninfg the PHP file change scanner timed out (around 1500 php files)
-.htaccess Maker causes a 500 server error
-site still attempts to redirect me to another site even with no .htaccess file

Any assistance with my next steps would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Bevan

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Duplicate of #11866.

Note: As I said in the other ticket, you have to read my "Unhacking your site" tutorial. The attacker has modified your core Joomla! site. Essentially he has "pwned" you (hacker-speak which means that your site can be assumed under the complete control of the attacker). Unless you carefully reinstall Joomla! files and clean up every infected file, you can safely assume that you will be hacked over and over again.

I'm closing this ticket. Please reply to #11866 instead. Thanks!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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