Danieljarto
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What problems can have a null theme? I know they can have malicious code, how can I verify if they have it or not?
Nulled themes got malicious code?
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Stitches and Burns
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Yes, they could have malicious code unless it's from a trustworthy source like Festinger.
You can use Astrogrep to search for injected URLs but others are more sneaky and inject base64 or some shit.
You can use Astrogrep to search for injected URLs but others are more sneaky and inject base64 or some shit.
Danieljarto
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virustotal doesnt work for checking?
why festinger is trustworthy? maybe it's the best hacker of bhw xd
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blackwalker
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Well he owns a subscription service where you get get like 5000 different plugins and themes virus free, It is not in his best interest to infect them
Danieljarto
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and why is giving away them free?
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Nope. You could hide it by obfuscating, but it could also be legit in trying to protect their code at least to an extent etc..Could be anything from getting a backlink to a backdoor that may allow them to access your site and publish spam etc,
LeadCloak
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To help people, i guess...
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He has been around for long time and helps people here at BHW.The susbscription costs covers the expenses so he doesnt need to anything malicious.
Have trust in him, and if you are in regular need of themes and plugins with fresh content update then you can try his service.
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Nulled themes generally have a backdoor for hackers to post content that redirects pages to advertisements. They create backlinks of these files from one site to another, so these pages rank on Google for a short time and they make as much money as they can within a short time.
YuvrajThapa
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To help people here on BHW who can't afford the theme. Who likes to try out the Wordpress theme for development phase. That's why he is providing it for free. @Festinger likes to contribute more so that new people does not get stuck to anything related to Wordpress. He has helped so much that no one can contribute like him.
xoxokuroro
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because he is kind person
darksoultrip
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This! It's not worth it to use a nulled theme and risk your web server. I'll add when the super elite hacker forum isDark was around (RIP) he used to null themes and drop them on these exact BH forums so he could backdoor sites and drop cookies, build backlinks etc.
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Danieljarto
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thanks for all your replies, i've learned a lot!
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Nopes.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/p...-for-detecting-malicious-web-scripts.1055564/
If you want to find out malicious code in your downloaded theme/site, you could do something like this:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/p...-malicious-web-scripts.1055564/#post-11365756
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magicjones
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It's happened to me before. Used nulled theme and a malicious popup would appear on my site at random times.