CodeHopper’s ‘old roommate’? His LinkedIn says he now works for a medical data brokerage.
We caught it because the outbound connection went to a raw IP in a known C2 range. The attacker wasn’t after credit cards. They were after query patterns. They wanted to understand how our EMR thinks —the relationships between doctors, prescriptions, and diagnosis codes.
Don’t trust offline installers. Don’t trust forum heroes. And if you’re reading this because you’re looking for a legacy build? Build it from source or don’t build it at all.” (Auto-generated) User: Moderator Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer This thread has been archived due to a confirmed supply chain incident. All linked files have been blacklisted by 12 antivirus vendors as of today. Tag: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer Dangerous. End of story. Posts tagged PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer Do...
(Archived Forum Thread) User: DevDave_84 Date: March 12, 2023 Subject: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer - Does anyone still have the .exe? I know this is a long shot. The official site only hosts v2023 and v2024 now. The legacy portal requires a support subscription that expired in 2021. I have a client with a legacy ASP.NET WebForms project tied specifically to PHPMaker 2019’s old MySQL connector. If I try to regenerate with v2023, the entire database layer breaks.
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“The installer was not an installer. It was a wrapper. After generation, the ‘mysql_connector.dll’ injected a scheduled task that beaconed out every 48 hours. The beacon payload was small—just exfiltrating database table schemas and the first 100 rows of any table named ‘patient’, ‘user’, or ‘audit_log’.
Does anyone have the original offline installer for v2019.0.6? I have the license key, just not the bits. I know it’s 1.2GB. I can set up an FTP. Please. This is for a hospital EMR interface. No joke. (One hour later) User: CodeHopper Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer I have it. But it’s on an external HDD in my closet. I’ll dig it out tonight. Check your DMs tomorrow. Post #3 (The next day) User: DevDave_84 Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer CodeHopper, you’re a lifesaver. Got the link. Installing now. Thank you thank you thank you. Post #4 (Three days later) User: SilentBob_99 Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer Wait. Did anyone else download that? I grabbed it from the mirror link DevDave posted. My Norton flagged a .dll in the /bin/ folder as “Heuristic.Unknown.Trojan”. False positive? Post #5 (Four days later) User: DevDave_84 Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer What? No. I ran it in a VM first. It’s clean. CodeHopper is a long-time forum member. Relax. Post #6 (One week later) User: CodeHopper Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer Hey, sorry for the radio silence. That HDD I found? It wasn’t mine. It was my old roommate’s from when we shared a dev office in 2020. He left it behind. I never formatted it. I just saw “PHPMaker2019_Setup.exe” and assumed. CodeHopper’s ‘old roommate’
DevDave… have you deployed that generated code yet? (No timestamp. The thread is locked.) User: System Reply: Re: PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer THREAD LOCKED. Reason: Potentially compromised credentials.
PHPMaker 2019 Offline Installer Download The attacker wasn’t after credit cards