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Malware Scanner Documentation

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Lines longer than this limit identified as malware. Nominal values are 128-256.
Frequency calculates how similar code is to standard PHP files. Nominal values are 1-20.

Malware uses random variable names. Min percentage of unknown variable names flag malware. Nominal 25-45
Advanced users can use their own regular expressions to detect malware. be sure to include leading and trailing "/"

Malware often hides in dynamic function calls. Dynamic function calls are legitimate programming techniques that are impossible for malware static analysis to find. BitFire flags unknown files with dynamic function calls only when found with random variable names, encryption or other obfuscation techniques present. Configure the thresholds for identification here.

Details on malware cleaning: Malware Cleaning How-To Video

BitFire Malware scanner will identify Potential Malware. It compares your files against the official WordPress core, plugin and theme files, then checks any unknown files and differences against machine learning metrics for malware.

Malware is typically easy to spot in the diff. If you have no reason to believe you have any malware on your site, be sure to run a scan, review and allow any mis-identified files here.

WordPress version {{wp_ver}} : (0) Scanned Files (.) Possible Malware Files scanned

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