Imunify Connect: A New Way to Add Enterprise-grade Malware Scanning to Your WordPress or PHP Security Plugin

If you have a successful WordPress (or other PHP-based) security plugin, you probably know this scenario. You’ve built a solid product. Maybe it’s a login limiter, an activity logger, or a firewall. You have tens of thousands (or millions) of active installs. The reviews are great.

But then, some of your users start asking:

"Do you scan for malware?"
"I think I was hacked. Can your plugin clean it?"

Many plugin builders have to answer "No" to these questions. You have to send them away knowing that they will likely end up at a competitor like Wordfence or Sucuri. And every time this happens, you lose some of those users, and what makes it even worse, you lose potential revenue.

We know why you haven’t added malware detection yet. It’s not because you can’t build the scanner. It’s because maintaining a high-quality malware database is really hard and complex ongoing work.

But you shouldn't have to build a full security research lab just to offer a malware scanning feature.

That’s why we built Imunify Connect.

Access Our Detection Engine, Keep Your Brand

We looked at the WordPress ecosystem and saw a gap. You have the users and the interface. We have the threat intelligence.

Imunify Connect is an API and PHP library that lets you plug the Imunify360 malware detection engine directly into your plugin.

Think of it as the "Stripe for Security." You wouldn't build your own payment gateway from scratch to process credit cards. You’d use an integration that handles the complexity and compliance. Imunify Connect does the same for malware.

By integrating our SDK, you get access to the same detection technology that protects over 56 million domains on the web. You get the engine that blocks 450 million threats daily, without having to hire a single security analyst.

How It Works

We know that bloat is not acceptable in the WordPress community. You cannot afford to slow down your users' sites with heavy scanning processes.

That is why we designed Imunify Connect to be lightweight:

1. Enumerate: Your plugin lists the files to be checked.
2. Hash & Compare: You send file hashes to our API. If the file is known-good (which most are), we ignore it. Files stay on the user's server.
3. Analyze: Only suspicious or unknown hashes are analyzed against our 10+ years of threat data.
4. Respond: We return a JSON response. You decide what to do next: alert the user, or use our intelligent cleanup to surgically remove the malicious code while leaving the rest of the file intact.

The Business Case

Imunify Connect is more than just security. It's about the sustainability of your business.

Many security plugins struggle to find a compelling reason for free users to upgrade to Premium. Many of the extra features are only “nice to have,” but malware detection & cleanup is a service users are willing to pay for.

With Imunify Connect, you can flip a switch and offer enterprise-grade malware protection as a premium feature.

• The Cost: Monthly one scan (without cleanup) per site is available for free. Pricing for scanning & cleanup starts at $1 per site/month (with volume discounts available).
• The Model: You charge your users $5, $10, or include it in a $99/year bundle. You set the price. You keep the margin.
• The Brand: It is white-label ready. Your users interact with your plugin interface. To them, you are the hero who cleaned their site.

Start Your Integration

Contact our team to gain access and get started: