Hackers Cleverly Hide Backdoor Inside the EXIF Data of a Joomla CMS Logo

  • 4 November 2015
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By Catalin Cimpanu    4 Nov 2015
 
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Clever technique, but not clever enough to avoid detection

 
Security researchers at Sucuri, a company specialized in providing security solutions for website owners, have uncovered a nifty trick used by hackers who managed to hide a backdoor in one of the most innocent places, the Joomla CMS logo image.
 
The researchers found the backdoor in a previously infected website, which they were analyzing at that moment.
 
The backdoor was encoded in base64 and added to the Copyright field of the Joomla CMS.jpg logo image, inside its EXIF metadata header.
 
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