Strange Not Found in webmaster tools

[allaboutthebets]

Hey guys, on one of our sites, for the past few days there have been about 20-30 Not Found errors that are like this -

kamagra-oral-jelly-kaufen-schweiz/
doxycycline-the-generics-pharmacy/
buy-cialis-london/
finasterid-rezeptfrei-schweiz/
orlistat-alli-dosage/
robaxin-over-the-counter-united-states/
buy-viagra-in-brisbane/
lisinopril-online-canadian-pharmacy/

Obviously these URLS never existed on our site so not sure why they are there? Ran a malware check and no malware on the site. Could it be a plugin?

TIA
Thanks

[Cardy007]

My guess is you´ve been hacked, if your own malware tests came up with nothing - Id suggest getting some professional advice.

Good Luck!

[universal4]

It would be wise to check some of this against links pointing at the site.

What could be happening is links pointing at your site that are mal-formed. It could easily be something like
http://domain.com/robaxin-over-the-c...united-states/

This would return a 404 looking for a nonexistent page.

Cardy could also be correct since on a quick search for robaxin-over-the-counter-united-states/ a few of the first page results redirected to xxmedstore-24hr.com which are linked in some way to the hacks on some sites (such as the real estate site with a hacked page)


Rick
Universal4

[TheGooner]

Agreed with Universals thoughts.

We get quite a few not found pages in webmaster tools - and they all seem to come from automated aggregator sites that use bots and have problems with the length or urls (truncated) or can't handle - or _ in the URL.

While it's not quite the same - it shows that a bad link from another site can generate the message.
I don't think the pages are on your site (given the 404 page not found response) or that your site has been hacked - neither does google.

It is annoying though - I just delete them from the report and if it happens too often I find the site and their IP address and block them for access our site in htaccess to prevent any more being added.

[allaboutthebets]

Checked the links in WMT and around 250 spammy links pointing to the site so have disavowed them, will see if it keeps happening.