: Malicious content detected by google webmasters tool I have received a malicious content warning in search console (google webmaster tool). However, it has not listed any URL or detection date

I have received a malicious content warning in search console (google webmaster tool). However, it has not listed any URL or detection date in the warning so I have no clue what's wrong with the site. It's a wordpress site hosted on a VPS.

Until then, browsers such as Google Chrome will display a warning when users visit or download certain files from your site.

The site is opening fine in the browsers (in chrome as well with no warnings). It's a informational website so there is not much to download for the users (except for some pdf documents which is also not triggering any warning in chrome). The site is also appearing fine in google search results.

I have no pointers on where to look for the problem. Can this be false positive? My host has been making some network changes during last 2-3 days. Can it be something they picked up during this time?

How should I go about it?

Update:
1. "Show details" link (from your screenshot above) showed the following popup with link to google documentation on malware

I tried my website with safe browsing diagnostic tool and the results are -

Regarding hacking, my wordpress is updated to the latest version and I have tested all my file timestamps and there is no change in last 1 month.

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@Annie201

After almost 4 weeks of that warning sitting on my webmaster console, I finally raised a "review request" stating -

The malicious content report doesn't contain any specific link affected by malicious content and I believe, after thorough checking of my website and my server, that my website is safe and secure for the users.

Next day, I received the review successful email from google stating -

Google has received and processed your security review request. Google systems indicate that [name-of-my-website.com] no longer contains links to harmful sites or downloads. The warnings visible to users are being removed from your site. This may take a few hours to happen.

Looks like it was indeed a false alarm and I believe it is most likely triggered because of advertising links as suggested by w3dk.

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@Margaret670

I suggest using the Wordfence plugin, wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
It will monitor your file system for changes to the original files.

Read more at www.wordfence.com/
I use the free version to monitor my Wordpress installs and it works great.

You should also change your FTP password.

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@Candy875

It's looking more and more like this is just a false alarm on Google's part. There was an article published about this today: searchengineland.com/hacked-content-rise-take-seo-precautions-protect-site-240855

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@Mendez628

That warning can be triggered from linked images, PDF, a linked JavaScript and sometimes a linked CSS. That can be also be triggered from ads on your website from shady sources.

Also check your webpages for hidden iframes, Google does not like that pretty much and if Google warns you about it, the source of the iframe was reported before for malpractice

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