{"id":1142,"date":"2015-04-20T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2015-04-20T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:30:30","slug":"sucuri-false-positive-on-stop-spammers-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2015\/04\/sucuri-false-positive-on-stop-spammers-plugin.html","title":{"rendered":"Sucuri false positive on Stop Spammers Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sucuri found a match to it&#8217;s malware signatures in the Stop Spammers thread-scan module. It was a string that I found in a Sucuri blog post about a malware back door that was appearing in WordPress installs. I added the string to the threat-scan, hoping to catch some sites with with the back door.<br \/>\nWhat happened was that Sucuri caught me. It thought that the malware signature was actually part of a real malware infection.<br \/>\nI had grabbed what I thought was the smallest unique part of the string to do my scans. Evidently that was enough for Sucuri to detect and report my plugin as Malware.<br \/>\nI have removed the check. If you want a complete check you need to send $200 to Sucuri.<br \/>\nIn the mean time, I&#8217;ve decided to add different kinds of check to the Threat-Scan in Stop Spammers. So far I&#8217;ve been checking against incoming IP addresses. I thought it would be fun to use the spam check modules to check against the IP of the website itself.<br \/>\nThis is going to drive people crazy when they find out their website is a source of spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sucuri found a match to it&#8217;s malware signatures in the Stop Spammers thread-scan module. It was a string that I found in a Sucuri blog post about a malware back door that was appearing in WordPress installs. I added the string to the threat-scan, hoping to catch some sites with with the back door. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}