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TF-1932581 medium

📛 Threat Title

php.shin_webshell: Domain that is used for botnet Command&control (C&C) lyqafuqi.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: 2026-09-25 02:34:28 UTC. Reporter: xscon. Tags: Cloudflare, gif, PHP, webshell, WordPress, workers.dev, wp-admin.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

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lyqafuqi.workers.dev
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Domain that is used for botnet Command&control (C&C) attributed to php.shin_webshell

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  • 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: 2026-09-25 02:34:28 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:safeguard.sh

    A PHP webshell gives attackers remote control of a server. Learn how they get planted, what the code looks like, and how to detect and remove one.

  • web:threatfox.abuse.ch

    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

    The php.shin_webshell payload itself is a classic post-exploitation webshell that , once dropped on a target edge server, would blend into routine PHP traffic. This is not a replacement for the proven C2 cohort above — it's an escalation path.

  • 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

  • web:www.threatclaw.ai

    The shin_webshell workers.dev cluster is a reminder that infrastructure capability is now a commodity — Cloudflare's free edge has become the attacker's rotating proxy tier, and domain -generation algorithms have migrated from .ru /.top to .workers.dev. Detection must shift from reputation-lookup to behavioral fingerprinting of the TLS edge ...

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