Surgical Malware Removal
Your WordPress site is infected. Automated scanners won't find everything. We will.
Free security plugins scan for signatures they already know. Sophisticated malware survives those scans by design, hiding in image directories, encoded in database fields, or injected into legitimate WordPress files character by character. We find what the scanners miss.
What a Hacked Site Is Actually Costing You Right Now
While your infected site sits online, search engines are crawling and indexing the malicious content. Google will eventually display a "Deceptive Site Ahead" warning, if it hasn't already. Every visitor who sees that warning associates your brand with danger.
If the infection is a redirect hack, your traffic is being silently sent to a competitor's site or a pharmaceutical spam page. If it's a credential harvester, your customers' data may already be compromised. Every hour the infection is live is another hour your business reputation is being actively destroyed.
Why Security Plugins Give You a False Sense of Safety
Wordfence, Sucuri, and similar plugins are valuable tools, we use them ourselves as part of a layered approach. But they have a fundamental limitation: they can only detect what they've been programmed to look for.
Attackers adapt. They encode malicious PHP in ways that evade signature detection. They store backdoors in files that security plugins typically whitelist. They inject database-level payloads that no file scanner will ever find.
Running a security plugin and getting a "clean" result while your site is visibly hacked, redirecting visitors, displaying spam, or showing Google warnings, is one of the most disorienting experiences a site owner can have. It means your scanner isn't looking in the right places.
The WebCare Malware Removal process
- **Entry point identification:** Before cleaning anything, we identify how the attacker got in. Cleaning without finding the entry point guarantees reinfection.
Entry point identification
Before cleaning anything, we identify how the attacker got in. Cleaning without finding the entry point guarantees reinfection.
Full file system audit
We compare every core file against WordPress.org's verified checksums and manually review theme and plugin directories for injected code.
Database scrub
We search all database tables, including options, post content, and user meta, for malicious JavaScript, spam URLs, fake admin accounts, and encoded payloads.
Backdoor extermination
We identify and destroy secondary access points, encoded PHP files in upload directories, rogue cron jobs, and hidden admin accounts.
Post-cleanup hardening
File permissions, `wp-config.php` security keys, and authentication measures are reset and hardened after the infection is cleared.
Google blacklist removal
We submit a clean review request to Google Search Console and monitor the delisting of "Deceptive Site Ahead" warnings.
Post-Mortem Report
Case Study: The SEO Spam Attack That Destroyed 14 Months of Rankings
Want results like this? Get a free audit and see what we can fix in 24 hours.
Get a Free AuditCommon questions
Questions answered.
My security plugin says the site is clean but it's clearly hacked. Why?
Your plugin is looking for known malware signatures. Sophisticated attacks use obfuscation and target locations that automated scanners skip. Manual file and database review finds what automated tools miss.
Will cleaning the malware remove the Google warning?
Cleaning the site is step one. Step two is submitting a review request to Google Search Console. Google typically removes the warning within 24–72 hours of the review request if the site is genuinely clean.
How do I prevent reinfection after cleanup?
We close the entry point as part of every cleanup. We also recommend moving to a managed maintenance plan, the infections we see most often exploit vulnerabilities in outdated plugins that a structured update cycle would have patched months earlier.
What's your pricing?
Malware cleanup starts from $299 per incident for a standard WordPress site. Complex infections involving large databases, multiple backdoors, or Google penalty removal are quoted individually after an initial assessment.
Request WordPress Support.
Whether you need emergency help or ongoing maintenance, submit your website details below. Our WordPress experts will review and respond within 4 hours.