What do malicious or invisible iframes look like?

by bharathi 2010-11-02 15:14:04

iframe code looks like this. If you don't recognize remotesite.com, the code is suspicious. This example combines two separate methods of making it an "invisible iframe", either one of which would work by itself: the width and height settings, or the style:

iframe src="http://remotesite.com/path/file" width="0" height="0" frameborder="0" style="display:none"


Whenever you find an iframe like this, do a web search on remotesite.com to find security-related websites, blogs, or forum posts that discuss it:

remotesite.com malware OR hacked

Be careful to avoid clicking any result that is the malicious website, or is a website that was infected by it! Some iframes are always associated with a particular type of exploit, so information about the one you found can save a lot of time discovering how your website got hacked. For example, iframes referencing gumblar.cn, martuz.cn, and a growing list of others are the result of FTP password theft from the webmaster's PC, so the security problem is on the PC, not the server.

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