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Database Entry

CoinMiner

Vendor detections: 14

Intelligence 14 IOCs YARA 61 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa
SHA3-384 hash:	d2eb95a22b8cc8142b65d7b871e01b1dd648bea2d1fcd0a077a03d849f54a3a4a6f4220728cc21a8e110935d814887e9
SHA1 hash:	1be938109d495a23af41864c49e3d9ed8f12a077
MD5 hash:	d949ee2b9cbd2460cdbf515367dabe91
humanhash:	football-ohio-violet-robin
File name:	Loader 2.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	CoinMiner Create hunting rule
File size:	6'786'808 bytes
First seen:	2026-09-23 16:20:36 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	1465e7eab8316965aaa8e0b0ce1d221d (4 x CoinMiner)
ssdeep	196608:dlw1V59VGCeb3+OXstSw6rl2q4Hipa2aJYd:d6v9EFD+hSNZhjpt6y
TLSH	T1146633C9A68ADD1BC94C91786558CA08F63C139E1B3B4DFF3AE08CB13C916D50DA791E
TrID	51.9% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (6522/11/2) 16.1% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13) 15.9% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3) 15.9% (.EXE) DOS Executable (generic) (2000/1)
Magika	pebin
dhash icon	2896969696969696 (13 x CoinMiner)
Reporter	Anonymous
Tags:	CoinMiner exe

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

129

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

No detections

Malware family:

xmrig

ID:

File name:

exe

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2026-09-23 18:07:48 UTC

Tags:

auto-sch auto-startup salatstealer stealer auto-reg pastebin miner ms-smartcard xmrig

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/1599f9f7-afda-476a-ae09-a944911d819b

Note:

ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample

Detection:

Salat

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/88663/

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating a file

Creating a process from a recently created file

Creating a process with a hidden window

Enabling the 'hidden' option for recently created files

Launching a process

Сreating synchronization primitives

DNS request

Sending a UDP request

Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests

Searching for synchronization primitives

Connection attempt

Sending a custom TCP request

Deleting a recently created file

Connection attempt to an infection source

Creating a service

Launching a service

Loading a system driver

Creating a file in the Program Files subdirectories

Enabling autorun with the standard Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry branch

Query of malicious DNS domain

Sending a TCP request to an infection source

Enabling autorun for a service

Adding exclusions to Windows Defender

Enabling autorun by creating a file

Verdict:

Likely Malicious

Threat level:

7.5/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

anti-debug expand installer-heuristic lolbin overlay packed packed

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/6ab3fc785966e5989e57b693/reports/0e8cb83d-789b-4207-a1f4-9743184f5e0f/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Win/malicious_confidence_70%

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x64

First seen:

2026-09-22T22:55:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-09-24T08:20:00Z UTC

Hits:

~100

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa/results?tab=lookup

Malware family:

XMRig Miner

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/613e6570-dd7f-463b-8c68-c86bf7d587b2

Score:

94%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa

Verdict:

inconclusive

YARA:

4 match(es)

Tags:

Executable PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout Win 64 Exe x64

Link:

https://app.malva.re/file/d949ee2b9cbd2460cdbf515367dabe91

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa/

Threat name:

Win64.Trojan.Windigo

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-09-23 03:38:03 UTC

File Type:

PE+ (Exe)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

23 of 38 (60.53%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=c4pwbspxhk2zfva32flxknlx3tzlif7vjen3bkmu3herjn24nkva._file

Result

Malware family:

xmrig

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:salatstealer family:xmrig credential_access defense_evasion discovery execution miner persistence privilege_escalation spyware stealer trojan upx

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260923-tttmtatsaw/

Behaviour

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Enumerates physical storage devices

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Drops file in Program Files directory

UPX packed file

Accesses cryptocurrency files/wallets, possible credential harvesting

Adds Run key to start application

Contacts third-party web service commonly abused for C2

Creates a file in the Startup directory

Executes dropped EXE

Reads user/profile data of web browsers

Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Windows security modification

Badlisted process makes network request

Detect SalatStealer payload

Family: salatstealer

Family: xmrig

Windows security bypass

XMRig Miner payload

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa

MD5 hash:

d949ee2b9cbd2460cdbf515367dabe91

SHA1 hash:

1be938109d495a23af41864c49e3d9ed8f12a077

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/2ce6f8b4-e285-49e0-80ab-9b629c5103bc/

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/171f60c9f73ab592d41bd157753577dcf2b417f5491bb0a994d9c914b75c6aaa

YARA Signatures

MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:	Base64_Encoded_Powershell_Directives Create hunting rule

Rule name:	command_and_control Create hunting rule
Author:	CD_R0M_
Description:	This rule searches for common strings found by malware using C2. Based on a sample used by a Ransomware group

Rule name:	CP_Script_Inject_Detector Create hunting rule
Author:	DiegoAnalytics
Description:	Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DebuggerException__ConsoleCtrl Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DebuggerException__SetConsoleCtrl Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DetectEncryptedVariants Create hunting rule
Author:	Zinyth
Description:	Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded

Rule name:	DetectGoMethodSignatures Create hunting rule
Author:	Wyatt Tauber
Description:	Detects Go method signatures in unpacked Go binaries

Rule name:	Detect_Go_GOMAXPROCS Create hunting rule
Author:	Obscurity Labs LLC
Description:	Detects Go binaries by the presence of runtime.GOMAXPROCS in the runtime metadata

Rule name:	Detect_PowerShell_Obfuscation Create hunting rule
Author:	daniyyell
Description:	Detects obfuscated PowerShell commands commonly used in malicious scripts.

Rule name:	Disable_Defender Create hunting rule
Author:	iam-py-test
Description:	Detect files disabling or modifying Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, or Microsoft Smartscreen

Rule name:	FreddyBearDropper Create hunting rule
Author:	Dwarozh Hoshiar
Description:	Freddy Bear Dropper is dropping a malware through base63 encoded powershell scrip.

Rule name:	GoBinTest Create hunting rule

Rule name:	golang Create hunting rule

Rule name:	Golangmalware Create hunting rule
Author:	Dhanunjaya
Description:	Malware in Golang

Rule name:	golang_binary_string Create hunting rule
Description:	Golang strings present

Rule name:	golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846 Create hunting rule
Author:	Justin Cornwell
Description:	CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset

Rule name:	Golang_Find_CSC846 Create hunting rule
Author:	Ashar Siddiqui
Description:	Find Go Signatuers

Rule name:	Golang_Find_CSC846_Simple Create hunting rule
Author:	Ashar Siddiqui
Description:	Find Go Signatuers

Rule name:	grakate_stealer_nov_2021 Create hunting rule

Rule name:	Heuristics_ChromeABE Create hunting rule
Author:	Still
Description:	attempts to match instructions related to Chrome App-bound Encryption elevation service; possibly spotted amongst infostealers

Rule name:	HiveRansomware Create hunting rule
Author:	Dhanunjaya
Description:	Yara Rule To Detect Hive V4 Ransomware

Rule name:	identity_golang Create hunting rule
Author:	Eric Yocam
Description:	find Golang malware

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_Embedded_Crypto_Wallet_Browser_Extension_IDs Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detect binaries embedding considerable number of cryptocurrency wallet browser extension IDs.

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_References_Browsers Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects binaries (Windows and macOS) referencing many web browsers. Observed in information stealers.

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SQLQuery_ConfidentialDataStore Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables containing SQL queries to confidential data stores. Observed in infostealers

Rule name:	Macos_Infostealer_Wallets_8e469ea0 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	MD5_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for MD5 constants

Rule name:	Multi_Generic_Threat_19854dc2 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	pe_detect_tls_callbacks Create hunting rule

Rule name:	ProgramLanguage_Golang Create hunting rule
Author:	albertzsigovits
Description:	Application written in Golang programming language

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	RIPEMD160_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for RIPEMD-160 constants

Rule name:	Rooter Create hunting rule
Author:	Seth Hardy
Description:	Rooter

Rule name:	RooterStrings Create hunting rule
Author:	Seth Hardy
Description:	Rooter Identifying Strings

Rule name:	Salat Create hunting rule
Author:	kevoreilly
Description:	Salat Payload

Rule name:	SEH__vectored Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	SHA1_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for SHA1 constants

Rule name:	SHA512_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants

Rule name:	Suspicious_Golang_Binary Create hunting rule
Author:	Tim Machac
Description:	Triage: Golang-compiled binary with suspicious OS/persistence/network strings (not family-specific)

Rule name:	Suspicious_Process Create hunting rule
Author:	Security Research Team
Description:	Suspicious process creation

Rule name:	Sus_All_Windows_PE_Malware Create hunting rule
Author:	DiegoAnalytics
Description:	Detects Windows PE malware of all types, avoids non-executables like .html

Rule name:	telebot_framework Create hunting rule
Author:	vietdx.mb

Rule name:	ThreadControl__Context Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	TH_AntiVM_MassHunt_Win_Malware_2026_CYFARE Create hunting rule
Author:	CYFARE
Description:	Detects Windows malware employing anti-VM / anti-sandbox evasion techniques across VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, QEMU, Xen, and generic sandbox environments
Reference:	https://cyfare.net/

Rule name:	UPX Create hunting rule
Author:	kevoreilly
Description:	UPX Unpacker: dump on OEP (original entry point)

Rule name:	UPXV200V290MarkusOberhumerLaszloMolnarJohnReiser Create hunting rule
Author:	malware-lu

Rule name:	upx_largefile Create hunting rule
Author:	k3nr9

Rule name:	vmdetect Create hunting rule
Author:	nex
Description:	Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

Rule name:	Windows_Trojan_SalatStealer_03d2a4ee Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	WIN_Sample_Unique_69354b41 Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Specimen unique (soumission Bazaar) - strings distinctifs propres au sample
Reference:	69354b41e10daf03d3f3af881b32d5c0fec56b1cfe96629fd4c5263413a42854.exe

File information

The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/88663/

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