Security Breach or false positive? Alexusmailer

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Hello,

I’ve recently had a 6 files tagged as malicious by Wordfence, they’re WP-Optimize JavaScript minfied files so not actual php malware scripts.

They were tagged because they contained the string “alexusmailer” which is a mailing script made by a russian guy (which makes this more suspicious)

I’ve done a bit of forensic work on the server as I have access to it but I can’t find anything related to “alexusmailer”. No php file to be seen and I don’t understand the “header: PROCESSED” idea from WP-Optimize or where it got the alexusmailer path from?

All my plugins and Astra theme were up to date with auto-updates, my password had no way of being breached, server has ssh log in with private keys only no password and wordfence didn’t report any logins so unless this was a zero-day exploit I have no clue.

The blurred URL is the website I’m working on, not anything external.

Any idea?

Thank you.

  • This topic was modified 7 hours, 56 minutes ago by notflint.

 

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