On March 15, 2022, The Wordfence Incident Response team alerted the WordFence Threat Intelligence team to an increase in infected websites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service, which includes MediaTemple, tsoHost, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe Managed WordPress sites. These affected sites have a nearly identical backdoor prepended to the wp-config.php file. Of the 298 sites that have been newly infected by this backdoor starting 5 days ago on March 11, at least 281 are hosted with GoDaddy.
The backdoor in question has been in use since at least 2015. It generates spammy Google search results and includes resources customized to the infected site. The main backdoor is added to the very beginning of wp-config.php and looks like this:
The encoded file that is downloaded contains a template based on the infected site source code, but with links to pharmaceutical spam added. This spam link template is set to display whenever the site is accessed.
If your site is hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress platform (which includes MediaTemple, tsoHost, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe Managed WordPress sites), we strongly recommend that you manually check your site’s wp-config.php file, or run a scan with a malware detection solution such as the free Wordfence scanner to ensure that your site is not infected.
If your site is infected you will need to have it cleaned and may also need to remove spam search engine results.
Source: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/03/increase-in-malware-sightings-on-godaddy-managed-hosting