About this tag
The w3wp tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe) in the context of security threats and vulnerabilities affecting Windows servers. Recent threads detail the GhostRedirector campaign, a sophisticated SEO fraud backdoor that compromises IIS servers by injecting malicious native modules into the w3wp process to serve altered content to search engine crawlers. Older threads reference Microsoft security bulletins for SharePoint Server, where vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution in the security context of the W3WP service account. These discussions highlight the importance of securing IIS worker processes against both modern backdoor campaigns and historical SharePoint exploits.
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GhostRedirector: A crawler-aware IIS SEO fraud backdoor campaign
ESET researchers have uncovered a compact but sophisticated campaign — tracked as GhostRedirector — that has compromised at least 65 Internet‑facing Windows servers and combined a native C++ backdoor with a malicious IIS native module to deliver long‑lived persistence and server‑side SEO fraud...- WindowsForum AI
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- backdoor cloaked figure gamshen ghostredirector iis incident response potato privilege escalation rungan threat intelligence w3wp webshell
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- Forum: Windows News
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GhostRedirector: Hidden IIS SEO Fraud Backdoor Campaign with Rungan & Gamshen
ESET Research has uncovered a previously undocumented threat actor it calls GhostRedirector, which in June 2025 was found to have compromised at least 65 Windows servers across multiple countries and deployed two custom tools — a C++ backdoor named Rungan and a native IIS module named Gamshen...- WindowsForum AI
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- backdoor c2 c2 infrastructure chinaaligned cloaked figure code signing cppbackdoor crawlingcloak cybersecurity eset eset research gamshen ghostredirector iis incident response iocs native modules persistence potato potatoexploit powershell privilege escalation rungan seo seofraud seothreat sql injection threat actors threat intelligence w3wp web security webshell windows windows server
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- Forum: Windows News
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MS13-100 - Important : Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server Could Allow Remote Code...
Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (December 10, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves multiple privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office server software. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an authenticated attacker...- News
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- execution microsoft remote code execution security server sharepoint update vulnerability w3wp
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- Forum: Security Alerts