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szepesif
szepesif

Reputation: 19

How to automatically delete thousands of folders from the public_html folder?

A friend of mine asked me to help cleaning her cPanel account because it got infected with malware. I logged in to cPanel and the built-in file manager crashed after a few minutes because this malware created 100.000s of folders and it couldn't even process it. Some of those are empty, the others are containing a few malicious PHP files. These folders names are just numbers (for example: 1979190). I tried to delete them through FTP but it's just not an option. My FTP client can only show 10.000 folders at a time. I tried to delete those but 2 hours later it's still deleting the folders with the first number sequence (1******) and the last folders are starting with number 9.

Unfortunately there's no SSH access for this account. I have contacted the support too but they won't help (they want us to pay $100 before they can run a single shell command...)

So my question is: What is the best way to delete all of those folders from the public_html directory? Is there a PHP script that could help? Maybe something that could delete all folders where the folder name is just numbers?

Any idea could help! Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1674

Answers (1)

Charlie
Charlie

Reputation: 23848

Use this script. It goes through the nested directories and remove them all.

<?php
  function rrmdir($dir) {
  if (is_dir($dir)) {
    $objects = scandir($dir);
    foreach ($objects as $object) {
      if ($object != "." && $object != "..") {
        if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") 
           rrmdir($dir."/".$object); 
        else unlink   ($dir."/".$object);
      }
    }
    reset($objects);
    rmdir($dir);
  }
 }
?>

Upvotes: 0

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