Phishing Warning

  • Hello there,

    Ok around a week ago I linked a potential employer to my portfolio site, he notified me that google chrome brought up a Phishing Site warning. This has never happened before, I have always had security on my Site in the form of the “Bullet Proof security” plugin.

    I have sent a verification request off to Google however my site still shows the issue, they have not contacted me regarding this via email and Googles Webmaster tools shows no security issues. I have scanned using Sucuri’s website scanner which also shows no issues. There is one Pop up on my site which is a direct to my Hosting site since I use free hosting. Could this redirect to purchase hosting maybe be the issue here?

    I upload any new files using filezilla, I have changed passwords for that, my admin and my Host site. I cannot seem to find any suspicious files however do not really know enough to look for any redirects since I would have no idea where to start. As mentioned this is only a basic 5 page portfolio site with some video plug ins which embed Youtube videos and that is pretty much it. There are no log in forms other than the Admin log in, and there is a simple comment box, my site looks the exact same all the links direct to where they are supposed to. I have no Ecommerce to speak of so do not understand why Google Would flag it.

    If anyone with security knowledge could point me in the right direction to getting this sorted I would be super appreciative. I am not really willing to pay for a professional clean up as my site traffic is only minimal since it is only a portfolio site for animation work.

    The URL is: https://www.animationadventures.co.uk

    It seems the issue only happens in Google Chrome, firefox and Internet explorer bring up no such error.

    Any advice and responses are greatly welcomed. I would really love to be able to get the giant red phishing page removed from my site as quick as possible as it is ruining any potential opportunities.

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  • When I go to your site I see this unexpected Hosting company promotion.
    You doing this purposely?
    Pic: https://goo.gl/m4HihG

    And likewise, I see that the bitdefender website is marking you as a phishing site.
    I would go to them and work to clear your reputation with them to start: https://trafficlight.bitdefender.com/info?url=

    There’s probably a phishing page/directory buried within your site files. They are very tricky to detect.

    Usually if I’m looking for a phishing page I will search for terms like this within site files (using grep):

    -paypal
    -wellsfargo
    -googledocs
    -yahoo
    -bank
    -expiration date
    -security code

    It’s hard to know what to search for, though, when you don’t know what the phishing page is even supposed to look like! And to make matters more difficult Google Webmaster Tools doesn’t flag the URL’s of phishing pages so it’s hard to know where to even start.

    Since Bitdefender is clearly aware of the threat I might suggest you send them an e-mail as Hack Repair Guy suggested and perhaps they might give you a hint as to where to look.

    Thread Starter Rmunday

    (@rmunday)

    @ the hack repair guy, I use free hosting so I assume that is on there end to try get revenue. However I do not have this come up deliberately.

    Also I contacted my host provider at first they said they could do nothing, I came in these forums to try sort the issue. However when I contacted them again they said the Google warning is now removed which it now is. It is however still flagged up on Bitdefender, so I shall contact them and attempt to get that sorted. I assume it could very well be that ad that is causing issues since it does direct straight to their buying options pages.

    Thread Starter Rmunday

    (@rmunday)

    And also thank you for the hints rngdmstr I shall take a browse later on through my server files see if I can find anything, hopefully bitdefenders team can direct me, thank you for the advice and help!

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