MD Pabel

18/08/2026

WordPress Malware Removal for Developers & Site Owners is now in Early Access.

Built from real WordPress malware cleanup cases, investigations, and recovery experience — not theory-only security advice.

📖 Chapter 1 is available free
📘 Early Access on Leanpub

https://leanpub.com/wordpressmalwareremovalfordeveloperssiteowners

15/08/2026

A customer says:

“Your WordPress site is redirecting me to a spam website.”

You open the site on your desktop.

Everything looks normal.

Who is right?

Potentially, both.

In one real case, desktop visitors received a normal 200 response while mobile visitors received a 302 redirect. A malicious .htaccess rule was targeting mobile user-agents only.

That’s an important WordPress malware lesson:

A site looking normal to you does not prove that it is clean.

📘 I cover this investigation in the free first chapter of WordPress Malware Recovery:

https://www.mdpabel.com/wordpress-malware-removal-book/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=chapter1_mobile_redirect

Preview MD Pabel’s WordPress Malware Removal Book. Read Chapter 1 free and learn an evidence-led approach to hacked site cleanup and recovery.

23/06/2026

A client came to me in a panic after SiteGround completely shut down their WooCommerce store with a scary "Malware Detected" warning.

The hacker hid a malicious file called `single-compiler.php` inside the site's theme. It looked like a normal file, but it was actually a secret backdoor giving them full access to the website. To make it worse, they left 13 other hidden copies across the site so they could get back in later.

Here is the key takeaway: if your web host suspends your site for malware, never just delete the one file they flag. You have to clean out the hidden backup copies too, or the site will just get hacked again.

I got the client's store safely back online the same day. If your WordPress site is facing a SiteGround suspension or a malware issue, I wrote a simple step-by-step guide on exactly how to fix it:

https://www.mdpabel.com/case-studies/siteground-malware-detected-suspension-tiny-file-manager-backdoor

02/06/2026

After cleaning 4,500+ hacked WordPress sites, pattern is clear: security plugins aren't enough. With 11,334 vulnerabilities 2025 and 5-hour exploit windows defense server-level hardening, not plugins.

Secure WordPress without security plugins. A specialist who's cleaned 4,500+ hacked sites shares the server-level and application hardening that actually works.

18/05/2026

shipped a bluesky autoposter in 1 hour with claude code 🚀

it pulls my rss feed, generates captions with gpt-4o-mini, and posts daily via /api. upstash redis dedupes. vercel cron handles the scheduling.

open source — if you write a blog and want it on bluesky on autopilot:

https://github.com/mdpabel/Bluesky-Autoposter
https://bluesky.mdpabel.com

15/05/2026

New WordPress Malware Case Study Published

A hacked WordPress site lost nearly 60% of its AdSense revenue because of a hidden malware file called:

👉 mplugin.php

The scary part?

The malware only showed spam ads to Google visitors while hiding itself from:
❌ WordPress admins
❌ Logged-in users
❌ Most security scans

The site owner couldn’t even reproduce the issue on his own device.

Inside this cleanup I found:

• A fake “Monetization Code plugin” hiding in `/wp-content/plugins/`
• Admin IP tracking via `admin_ips.txt`
• 11 malicious `wp_options` database rows
• Search-engine cloaking targeting Google/Bing/Yahoo visitors
• Self-updating malware pulling payloads from external C2 servers
• Reinfection from a nulled WooCommerce extension

This is exactly why many hacked WordPress sites keep getting reinfected even after “cleanup”.

I broke down:
✔ How the malware works
✔ How it hides from admins
✔ The exact SQL queries used during cleanup
✔ IOC domains & indicators
✔ Step-by-step removal process
✔ Why most security plugins miss it

Full case study:

https://www.mdpabel.com/case-studies/mplugin-php-monetization-code-plugin-malware-case-study/

If your WordPress traffic dropped suddenly, ads look strange only on mobile, or visitors report popups you can’t reproduce — check your site carefully.

— MD Pabel
WordPress Malware Removal Specialist
4,500+ hacked WordPress sites cleaned

15/05/2026

Cleaned your WordPress site, but the malware came back again?

That usually means the real problem was not removed.

In many cases, attackers leave a hidden persistence mechanism behind — like a cron job, backdoor file, hidden admin user, infected database entry, or compromised hosting login. So even after deleting the visible malware, the site gets reinfected.

I’ve shared a full breakdown of why this happens and how to stop WordPress malware from coming back permanently.

Read the guide here:
https://www.mdpabel.com/blog/why-wordpress-malware-keeps-coming-back-and-how-to-stop-it-forever/

If your site keeps getting hacked again and again, this guide will help you understand what your last cleanup probably missed.

Cleaned your site but the malware returned? After 4,500+ cleanups, here's why WordPress malware keeps coming back and how to permanently stop reinfection.

14/05/2026

Seeing Japanese spam pages in Google under your WordPress site?

That is usually called the Japanese Keyword Hack or Japanese SEO spam. Your website may look normal, but Google can index thousands of fake spam URLs from your domain.

I wrote a guide showing how to use .htaccess rules to return 410 Gone for confirmed spam URL patterns. This can help reduce server load and speed up cleanup while Google removes the hacked URLs.

But remember: .htaccess rules only help with containment. You still need to remove the actual malware from your WordPress files, database, users, plugins, and cron jobs.

Read the full guide:
https://www.mdpabel.com/blog/how-to-fix-japanese-keyword-hack-in-wordpress-the-hard-way/

Learn how to use .htaccess to return 410 responses for Japanese SEO spam URLs, reduce WordPress load, and clean up hacked spam pages faster without relying only on plugins.