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Resolved Virus-ridden site, deleted files reappear instantly

tkalfaoglu

Silver Pleskian
Server operating system version
AlmaLinux
Plesk version and microupdate number
Obsidian
I have an interesting case. A web site (wordpress) has all the security applied in plesk, but it's virus ridden. Has been scanned and cleaned by ImmunifyAV many times.
I saw that the index.php has viruses so I deleted that file. the moment I delete it, it reappeared. It appears it attached itself to systemd ?
# ps aux|grep dutch
dutchene 24371 0.0 0.0 507176 25420 ? S Sep29 2:41 /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/dutchenergetics.com/staging.dutchenergetics.com/cron.php
dutchene 41969 0.2 0.0 90188 10096 ? Ss Sep29 57:26 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
dutchene 41983 0.0 0.0 317272 712 ? S Sep29 0:00 (sd-pam)
dutchene 42083 0.0 0.0 76404 4228 ? Ss Sep29 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

PS: That cron.php file does not exist.

How can I clean this site?
Thanks!
-t
 
I somehow fixed it by killing those tasks and then deleting the index.php -- and did a verify-checksum/reinstall core from WP toolkit..
But wow -- these viruses are getting serious.
 
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