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The overwhelming majority of searches for this tool are malicious. Attackers use automated scanners to find vulnerable websites (e.g., outdated WordPress plugins, unpatched Joomla components, or poor file upload validation). Once a vulnerability is found, the attacker:
The attacker had already used the box to run wget and download a cryptocurrency miner. That explained the 90-second traffic spike—they were testing if the miner worked.
// watchdog.php – scans for c99 patterns $bad_patterns = ['c99', 'SafeMode', 'shell_exec', 'base64_decode', 'eval', 'system("wget"'];
C99 is a programming language standard for C, which was introduced in 1999. It is an extension of the C programming language, and provides several new features, such as: