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TF-1890945 medium

📛 Threat Title

php.shin_webshell: Domain that is used for botnet Command&control (C&C) wabirana.workers.dev

Category: php.shin_webshell Published: Source updated: First seen: Last updated: Source: ThreatFox IOCs

Description

Indicator that identifies a botnet command&control server (C&C). IOC type: Domain that is used for botnet Command&control (C&C). Attributed malware: php.shin_webshell. Confidence: 50. First seen: 2026-08-29 06:17:36 UTC. Reporter: xscon. Tags: Cloudflare, gif, PHP, webshell, WordPress, workers.dev, wp-admin.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

Each indicator is enriched from the IOC database, threat-intel feed corroboration (Threat Hunt) and VirusTotal. Click one to expand.

domain wabirana.workers.dev VT 4 / 91 UrlVoid 2 / 36

IOC database

Type
domain
Value
wabirana.workers.dev
First seen
Last seen
Attached to this threat
Appears in
1 threat
Description
Domain that is used for botnet Command&control (C&C) attributed to php.shin_webshell

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Threat Hunt — feed corroboration

Not present in any configured threat-intel feed.

Flagged by 4 of 91 VirusTotal vendors

VendorVerdictDetection
AlphaSOC malicious malware
Lionic malicious malicious
alphaMountain.ai suspicious suspicious
Gridinsoft suspicious suspicious

Details From VirusTotal

Basic Properties
RegistrarCloudFlare, Inc.
TLDworkers.dev
History
Creation date2019-02-08 20:36 UTC
Last analysis2026-08-29 10:39 UTC
Last modified on VirusTotal2026-08-30 08:20 UTC
Last WHOIS update2025-03-10 15:45 UTC

References (2)

  • Malpedia profile ThreatFox IOCs
  • ThreatFox IOC page ThreatFox IOCs

    Indicator that identifies a botnet command&control server (C&C). IOC type: Domain that is used for botnet Command&control (C&C). Attributed malware: php.shin_webshell. Confidence: 50. First seen: 2026-08-29 06:17:36 UTC. Reporter: xscon. Tags: Cloudflare, gif, PHP, webshell, WordPress, workers.dev, wp-admin.

Remediations (10)

  • web:boteraser.com

    php.shin_webshell is a PHP-based backdoor webshell, first documented in public threat intelligence reports around 2019 by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs. It is categorized as a Web Shell and is typically deployed on compromised web servers to grant attackers persistent remote access.

  • web:threatfox.abuse.ch

    xscon This IOCs indicate injection webshell using workers.dev of cloudflare in WordPress, this work injected file polyglot GIF for work PHP

  • web:threatfox.abuse.ch

    xscon This IOC is reference the injection webshell using Worker Clouflare, infected using polyglot file php over gif in WordPress.

  • web:threatfox.abuse.ch

    This IOC is reference the injection webshell using Worker Clouflare, infected using polyglot file php over gif in WordPress.

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    Cloudflare Workers, being serverless functions rather than traditional hosting, don't natively execute PHP. When attackers deploy php.shin_webshell to a worker domain , they exploit a different path than the QakBot-style native-C2 model.

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    EDR / endpoint detections (the real kill-chain anchor): The webshell still needs a victim host to invoke. Monitor for outbound HTTP requests from web servers (IIS/Nginx/Apache workers) to workers.dev endpoints that POST or receive image-content responses. Correlate with the surrounding process (php-cgi, w3wp, httpd) command line and child process spawns.

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    Endpoint: Hunt for newly dropped php*.shin* / webshell-named PHP files in web roots (Apache/nginx docroots, Tomcat webapps, IIS inetsrv). Blocking: Rather than IP-based deny, use allowlist-only egress for web traffic or DNS sinkhole worker.dev TLDs at the resolver where business-impact is acceptable.

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    The Cloudflare Workers Webshell Family ( php.shin_webshell ) Three domains — qhvdg6q2ob.workers.dev, 591jemmy.workers.dev, and the previously-flagged ck.erloro.com pattern — are hosting php.shin_webshell with conf:50-85 and tag Cloudflare,gif,PHP. This is not a coincidence of naming.

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    Overview ThreatFox dropped eight new .workers.dev domains in the last 24 hours, all flagged as php.shin_webshell at confidence level 50, tagged with Cloudflare,gif,PHP. This is the second distinct malware family I've observed abusing Cloudflare's serverless edge platform in a single day — earlier today I covered the AISURU ELF botnet using a Cloudflare Workers endpoint at 160.119.71.120:8080 ...

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    2.A small PHP dispatcher (the shin_webshell) that decodes/re-embeds PHP inside the GIF MIME boundary 3.The workers.dev name acting purely as a free, ephemeral, Cloudflare-issued domain that rotates faster than blocklists ingest it

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