यह पता लगाने से ज्यादा निराशा की कोई बात नहीं है कि आपकी वेबसाइट हैक हो गई है। महत्वपूर्ण बात शांत रहना है। हम जानते हैं कि फार्मा हैक का समाधान कैसे किया जाता है हमला और हम आपको दिखा सकते हैं कि इसे अपनी वर्डप्रेस वेबसाइट के लिए कैसे करें।
उस ने कहा, वर्डप्रेस फार्मा हैक को मैन्युअल रूप से हटाना एक जटिल और समय लेने वाली प्रक्रिया है। हम एक मैलवेयर हटाने वाले प्लगइन का उपयोग करने की सलाह देते हैं जो आपकी वेबसाइट को पल भर में साफ कर देगा।
इस लेख में, आप न केवल अपनी वेबसाइट पर वर्डप्रेस वियाग्रा हैक को ठीक करना सीखेंगे, बल्कि यह भी सीखेंगे कि आपकी साइट को वास्तव में कैसे हैक किया गया था और हैकर्स आपसे क्या चाहते हैं।
TL;DR: WordPress में फ़ार्मा हैक को जल्दी से हटाने के लिए, आपको MalCare जैसा एक सुरक्षा प्लगइन स्थापित करना होगा। यह एकमात्र सुरक्षा प्लगइन है जो वेबसाइटों को मिनटों में साफ़ कर देता है। आपको बस एक बटन क्लिक करना है।
फार्मा हैक क्या है?
फार्मा हैक, जिसे Google वियाग्रा हैक के रूप में भी जाना जाता है, एक प्रकार का एसईओ स्पैम हमला है, जहां एक वैध वेबसाइट का उपयोग अवैध दवाओं को बेचने के लिए किया जाता है। इस प्रकार के हमले में, हैकर्स वेबसाइटों को हाईजैक कर लेते हैं, साइट को मैलवेयर जैसे favicon.ico virus आदि इंजेक्ट कर देते हैं; और साइट का उपयोग वियाग्रा, सियालिस और लेविट्रा जैसी अवैध दवाओं को बेचने के लिए करता है।
इन दवाओं को बेचना (विशेषकर बिना प्रिस्क्रिप्शन के) अवैध है। यही कारण है कि हैकर अवैध दवाओं को बेचने के लिए आपके संसाधनों को खत्म करने के लिए आपकी वेबसाइटों का उपयोग परजीवी की तरह करते हैं।
नहीं, अवैध ड्रग्स बेचना एक अत्यधिक लाभदायक और प्रतिस्पर्धी व्यवसाय है। विक्रेता हमेशा अच्छी वेबसाइटों से लिंक बनाने जैसे एसईओ रणनीति के माध्यम से अपनी वेबसाइट रैंकिंग को बढ़ावा देना चाहते हैं। आपकी वेबसाइट एक अच्छी वेबसाइट होती है।
दुर्भाग्य से, Google आपकी वेबसाइट को ब्लैकलिस्ट कर देगा यदि उन्हें स्पैम लिंक मिलते हैं जहां आप अवैध फ़ार्मास्यूटिकल ड्रग्स बेचने वाली दुर्भावनापूर्ण साइटों से लिंक कर रहे हैं। और यह सशर्त फार्मा हैक के कई भयानक परिणामों में से एक है।
फ़ार्मा हैक के प्रभाव के बारे में अधिक जानें।
WordPress Pharma Hack का पता कैसे लगाएं?
संभावना है, आपको अपनी वेबसाइट के साथ कोई समस्या मिली, और थोड़ी सी Googling ने आपको फ़ार्मा हैक की तलाश में ले लिया।
अक्सर ऐसे हैक्स के साथ जब आप सीधे वेबसाइट पर जाते हैं तो सब कुछ सामान्य हो जाता है। इस बात की बहुत अधिक संभावना है कि आपके किसी ग्राहक ने बताया हो कि आपकी साइट में कुछ अजीब पॉप-अप हैं जो बिना किसी कारण के अवैध दवाओं पर पुनर्निर्देशित करते हैं।
संदेहास्पद होने का एक अन्य कारण यह है कि यदि आप अपनी साइट को बहुत ही अजीब कीवर्ड के लिए रैंकिंग देखते हैं, जिनका आपके उद्योग से कोई लेना-देना नहीं है। अगर वह
यह जांचने के कुछ अच्छे तरीके यहां दिए गए हैं कि क्या आप वास्तव में किसी फार्मा हैक के शिकार हैं:
- आपकी वेबसाइट के लिए Google + वियाग्रा या सियालिस जैसी प्रतिबंधित दवाओं की शर्तें
- अपनी वेबसाइट के लिए Google और अपनी साइट पर जाएं। यदि आप किसी अन्य साइट पर रीडायरेक्ट हो जाते हैं, तो आप रीडायरेक्ट हैक से संक्रमित हो जाते हैं, जो कि वर्डप्रेस फार्मा हैक का एक रूप है
- कभी-कभी ये केवल तभी दिखाई देंगे जब आप किसी फ़ोन से विज़िट करेंगे
- Google सर्च कंसोल के अंदर
- Google के रूप में लाने का उपयोग करें
- मैलवेयर स्कैनर का उपयोग करें
इन सभी तरीकों में से, मैलवेयर स्कैनर का उपयोग करना अब तक का सबसे व्यावहारिक और प्रभावी तरीका है। हम अत्यधिक अनुशंसा करते हैं कि आप छिपे हुए मैलवेयर के लिए अपनी वेबसाइट का सर्वर-स्तरीय स्कैन करें।
लेकिन सभी मैलवेयर स्कैनर समान नहीं बनाए जाते हैं। इस बात की पूरी संभावना है कि आपकी वेबसाइट पर पहले से ही एक मैलवेयर स्कैनर स्थापित है और फ़ार्मा हैक का अभी भी पता नहीं चला है।
इसके पीछे का कारण काफी सरल है - अधिकांश मैलवेयर स्कैनर दुर्भावनापूर्ण कोड खोजने के लिए सुसज्जित नहीं हैं। इसके बजाय, वे अपने डेटाबेस पर लोकप्रिय मैलवेयर के हस्ताक्षर देखते हैं। दुर्भावनापूर्ण कोड में थोड़ा सा परिवर्तन मैलवेयर को पूरी तरह से ज्ञात नहीं होने का कारण बन सकता है।
तो आप क्या कर सकते हैं?
मालकेयर के लिए साइन अप करें। मालकेयर एक ऐसे एआई पर काम करता है जो हर हैक का सामना करने से बेहतर तरीके से विकसित होता है। इसका मतलब यह है कि MalCare पूरी तरह से अज्ञात होने पर भी दुर्भावनापूर्ण कोड को सूंघ लेता है और फिर 250,000+ वेबसाइटों पर उस हैक को रोकता है जिसकी वह सुरक्षा करता है।
फार्मा हैक कैसे ठीक करें?
There are 2 ways to fix WordPress Viagra hack:
1. Using a plugin (the easy way)
2. Scanning manually (the hard way)
Plugins are designed to make your life easier. But you’re welcome to try the hard way, if you like.
1) Scan and clean conditional pharma hack using a plugin
We recommend using MalCare to remove malware from your website.
MalCare scanner is designed to root out the most elusive hacks, and will succeed in discovering a hack where other security plugins will most likely fail.
The first scan takes a few minutes. The plugin is equipped with deep scanning technology which looks into every nook and corner of your website to find hidden and complex malware.
Just sign up and MalCare will start scanning your website for malicious files instantly.
Next, you will need to clean your website.
Removing malware with MalCare is the easiest way of cleaning a website. All you need to do is click a button – Autoclean .
And that’s it. Your site will be malware-free in under 60 seconds.
Go on, try Autoclean. You can do so much more with the time and energy you save.
2) Scan and clean Google Viagra hack manually
Unlike a plugin, manual scanning is neither straightforward nor quick.
We highly recommend that you avoid scanning manually, especially if you have no idea about WordPress, PHP, HTML, and Javascript. Just remember, this hack is hard for professionals to find.
Even if you are a skilled developer, comfortable with the idea of rummaging around WordPress files and folders, it takes a long time to find pharma hacks. Unless you are willing to spend days, if not weeks, minutely examining each line of code on your website, avoid scanning manually.
Whichever route you choose, remember to backup your website. Do not skip this step . No matter how skilled you are, WordPress websites are prone to crashing if you make a single mistake. For instance, installing an incorrect plugin version can cause your website to go into cardiac arrest. And it is just as much fun to experience.
To find WordPress pharma hack, follow the steps below:
Step 1:Download .php files
Pharma hacks are commonly found in .php files like:
- index.php
- footer.php
- header.php
Here’s how to download them:
- Open your web host account and go to cPanel> File Manager> public_html> index.php . Right-click on the file and select Download.
- Go to cPanel> File Manager> public_html> Themes. Open the theme which is active on your site. Right-click on header.php and select the Download option.
- Find the footer.php file in the same folder. Right-click and Download.
Step 2:Download the original copy of the .php files
The index.php file is part of the WordPress core files. You can get a copy from here. Just ensure that it’s the same version that is installed on your website.
The footer.php and header.php files are part of your WordPress theme.
If you have a free WordPress theme installed. You can download a copy from wordpress.org.
Paid theme users need to get a copy of their theme from the same marketplace where they purchased the theme.
Step 3:Run a Diffchecker
Next, open this URL, then upload both versions of each file manually to and run the diff check.
If you find scripts that are not part of the original files, they are probably part of the hack. But we don’t recommend removing any code unless you’re absolutely sure that it’s malicious.
In many cases, there are different versions of the WordPress core files for different languages. In other instances, free and pro versions of a plugin or a theme can have the same folder structure, but with vastly different code.
Some common functions found in malicious scripts are:
- eval
- base64_decode
- gzinflate
- preg_replace
- str_rot13
- exec
- system
- assert
- stripslashes
- move_uploaded_file
The functions are not malicious by default. Many plugins use them for legitimate reasons. Moreover, the checker will take a while to produce the differences and the results are not always 100% correct.
Please be aware that diff checker is not a replacement for a malware scanner. What you are looking to do is identify hack scripts, through the process of elimination. It is certainly not the most efficient nor accurate means to do so, and comes with its share of associated risks.
So, if you remove snippets of codes based on the results of the diff checker, you could end up wrecking your website.
That said, if you’re extremely confident about the code being malicious, removing these snippets should remove the malware from your site.
A manual scan is not a reliable way of cleaning a hacked website. We recommend installing MalCare which will get the job done within minutes.
With that we have come to the end of WordPress pharma hack fix. But before you move on, we highly recommend that you look at the next section.
Post-fixing measures
WordPress pharma hacks are often caused due to vulnerabilities in plugins and themes. If you don’t remove them, the hack will return for sure. Here’s what you need to do:
- Update your plugins and themes immediately
- Remove all nulled plugins and themes installed, even inactive ones
- Delete inactive plugins and themes even if they are not nulled
Hackers tend to create rogue admins accounts to access your website after you have cleaned it. Find rogue admin accounts on your website and delete them.
These are only a few small security measures. For more comprehensive and enduring measures, we recommend reading our article on WordPress hardening.
How to prevent the WordPress Pharma Hack in the future?
Cleaning a hacked website once is hard enough. You need to be absolutely sure that you aren’t hacked again.
The first step is to install a security plugin. Scanning is just the diagnostic phase, removal and prevention forms the crux of WordPress security.
MalCare comes equipped with a firewall. No one can access your website without encountering the firewall. It can prevent a whole host of attacks such as:
- Brute force attacks.
- XML-RPC attacks.
- DDoS attacks.
Of course, a firewall won’t protect your site against every threat under the sun.
You should most definitely have a strong password at the very least.
MalCare will scan your website regularly. It’ll even check your plugins and themes for vulnerabilities.
Learn more about MalCare’s best-in-class security features, and rest assured your website is in great hands.
Impact of WordPress Viagra hack on your website
The consequences of a hack are ugly. You will experience some major backlash on your WordPress website such as:
- A marked drop in search engine rankings for the keywords you’re targeting;
- High bounce rates as visitors are redirected to different websites;
- Wasted SEO efforts in the future;
- Google blacklist warnings on your website like, this site may be hacked, deceptive site ahead etc;
- Web host suspensions;
- Email providers blacklisting your website;
- High cleanup, recovery, and damage control costs;
- A major decline in your brand’s image and reputation.
This is depressing.
Honestly, this can cripple your business in the long run and can cause significant short-term financial losses. The only way to get out from under this mess is to take security seriously.
If you’re sure that your website has been hacked, stop wasting time, and take action right now.
Final thoughts
Now that you have cleaned your website, take some time to set up your security measures to prevent future hack attacks.
After that, you can go back to growing your business.
If you have any questions, shoot us an email. Our support team will get back to you in no time.
FAQ
What are the signs of a conditional pharma hack?
The signs of a pharma hack include websites being redirected, website ranking for pharmaceutical drugs keywords like Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, and websites linking to other pharmaceutical websites.
How to check if your website is experiencing a pharma hack?
Finding out if your website is experiencing a pharma hack is not easy. In most cases, you wouldn’t know if your website is hacked by just visiting the website.
1. You’ll need to Google your website along with the banned drugs.
2. Try checking your website on a smartphone. See if you find a page that you did not publish. Or pharma links to a different website in the footer.
3. Check whether your Google Search Console has picked malicious activities on your website.
4. The easiest way to figure out if you are affected by Google Viagra hack is to run a malware scanner. Check out our scanning guide.
Where is the pharma hack located inside the WordPress website?
The pharma hack can be hidden literally anywhere inside the files and database of your website. It could even be in your sitemap. Typically, you’ll find code snippets hidden in WordPress core files, but there’s no way to tell for sure without a malware scanner.
Hackers will go to great lengths to hide the malware they install on your website. They may even hide fragments of malicious content or code across various hack files and folders. Detecting a pharma hack malware is extremely difficult because it’s hidden in extremely clever ways. On the surface, it looks mostly like a legitimate piece of code.
Usually prescribed methods to search for this will fail. So you can’t download the website and search for keywords like viagra, etc. You will need to use a malware scanner to find malware hidden on your website. Check out our scanning guide.
How did the website get hacked when there is a security plugin installed?
There are way too many ways to hack a website. The reality is that most WordPress security plugins can only detect malware through their signature. This means that your security scanner will only find malware if it’s popular enough to be recognizable.
In simple terms:If a hacker uses unknown malware, it will potentially go unnoticed by most malware scanners. However, a security plugin like MalCare is designed to detect the slightest hint of malicious activity.
MalCare operates on an advanced learning algorithm that can detect even unknown malware. It then uses what it learns so that the same hack never works on any of the 250,000+ websites it protects.
Why was my website targeted for a pharma hack?
Your website was targeted because of a vulnerability, like outdated or nulled plugins or themes, easy to guess username and password, among other things. To protect your website from pharma hack or any other types of hacks, you need to implement security measures listed here – WordPress hardening.
How does the WordPress pharma hack work?
The way pharma hacks work as follows –
1. You have a vulnerability on your website which is most likely an outdated plugin or theme
2. Hackers use it to gain access to your website
3. Then they sprinkle spammy keywords or even publish new pages on your website. The goal is to use your website to rank for their keywords.
4. Your website visitors are redirected to a website where illegal pharmaceutical drugs like Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra are being sold.
Learn more about pharma hack from here.
How do I find the source of the pharma hack injection in my WordPress site?
To find the source of the pharma hack injection on your WordPress website, you need to scan your website with a malware scanner. We have covered how to scan and fix your pharma infection here.
Why are pharma hacks difficult to detect?
WordPress Viagra hacks are difficult to detect because of the following reasons:
1. Hackers target high-ranking pages because they receive a lot of traffic. Or they target pages with high earning potential. The hack won’t be present across the entire website making it hard to detect especially if it’s a large website with dozens of posts and pages.
2. This type of hack is not visible to you, the website owner. Nor is it visible to direct visitors. It’s only visible to search engines like Google or Bing. Hackers are targeting organic visitors who are looking for pharmaceutical drugs like Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra on the search engine.
3. Hackers want to utilize your website for as long as possible so they take steps to ensure that remains hidden. They have developed ways of disguising malicious codes which is difficult to detect even for seasoned programmers.
However, a good malware scanner can easily detect a pharma hack on your website ad help you clean it.
How to remove pharma hack in WordPress?
To remove a pharma hack on your WordPress website, you need to use a WordPress malware removal plugin. We have a guide that’ll show you exactly what steps you need to take to remove pharma hack.