Posts Tagged ‘sybil+attack’

Feb 14th, 2008

Blackhat SEO Spammer targeting High PR WordPress Blog

I’ve been monitoring mattheaton.com “wordpress.net.in goro spam injections” for this past few months. Noticeably, the blackhat spamming method is changing dramatically. For those who are still unaware of Wordpress Goro Spam please read my earlier post → Wordpress.net.in Spam injection& Gaming Bluehost & Hostmonster CEO’s Blog.

thinkingphp.org (PR6) & jensfrake.com (PR7) has been hijacked by “Wordpress Blackhat SEO Spammer” for this month. Both sites were running on WordPress 2.3.2.

By now the <div id=”goro”> signature has been replaced with “Inline CSS” wrapper.

Cloacking Check on Mattheaton.com

Normal Browser

32,246 characters - mattheaton-com-source.txt

Google bot

34,646 characters - mattheaton-com-googlebot-source.txt

Difference

2,400 characters

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Jan 31st, 2008

Matt Heaton Bluehost Hostmonster CEO Hacked Again - Strike II

Being Hacked by SEO spammer is seem like a yearly events at Mattheaton.com. Matt’s WordPress blog was first hijacked 2 months ago on 26 November 2007 (according to my record). You can digg my earlier post at → Matt Heaton BlueHost HostMonster CEO Official Blog Hacked.

It’s a big embarrassment for bluehost & hostmonster hosting to have their CEO’s blog being spamride every year (since 2007) . Drilling Matt Heaton’s with bad ads wont solves the Blackhat Spam issues, I will left that particulars part to my readers to speculate.

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Dec 1st, 2007

Matt Heaton BlueHost HostMonster CEO Official Blog Hacked

Dec 11 2007 - Matt Heaton Blog’s has been cleansed. ATM he’s using latest version of WordPress (2.3.x). And also most of the blogs lists in this articles has been upgrade.

Jan 26th, 2008 - Seem like bluehost engineer did a bad job at cleaning, the goro spam is back.

Just after the recent issue on wordpress.com.cn now there is new wordpress imitater. A remote spamware injection by wordpress.net.in

I was reading one of Matt Heaton posted 2 days ago when I found bunch of spamsware link on his wordpress footer.

Matt’s is using default wodpress theme (kubrick) with single javascript for adsense. The only way the spams can get in is probably via php injection or by manual editing. All the spamware is redirect to howardowens.com/?order=XX page.

Lookup for howardowens.com

The below diagram explained the lookup results for howardowens.com. click on the image to enlarge.

Surprisingly the spammer website is also host by bluehost.com (69.89.16.0/20,74.220.192.0/19 ,69.89.16.4 -> box183.bluehost.com).

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