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Database Entry



CoinMiner


Vendor detections: 9


Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 3 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 17a215c11838c6ebb792cc33fd66c6972563a3722eecf84e57beaaf89f3acfa7
SHA3-384 hash: 218e3ef88640c535d62a5fac7be6bf2273fd84c352d2ca70132c6922e3db0c98de721f1a370b7cf2d6dc8782231d1875
SHA1 hash: bf6c77b16d9937f4521adfac0cff1e108940ea6f
MD5 hash: a9261e627e65abd2a76823e9339bb686
humanhash: juliet-bacon-twenty-lamp
File name:x86_64
Download: download sample
Signature CoinMiner
File size:1'725'248 bytes
First seen:2025-02-02 06:11:37 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-sharedlib
ssdeep 49152:50vJG7L6ILYrt06drhrD2DVlgpLtEbd05qjkp:5JL6ILYrhd5KYpLtE5Wfp
TLSH T149853372F61DEF0E64045226B964631D37637665AC39AE843CF62393B4EA23BDC135B0
TrID 50.1% (.) ELF Executable and Linkable format (Linux) (4022/12)
49.8% (.O) ELF Executable and Linkable format (generic) (4000/1)
Magika elf
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:CoinMiner elf

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
136
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Changes access rights for a written file
Collects information on the RAM
DNS request
Changes the time when the file was created, accessed, or modified
Launching a process
Creating a file
Locks files
Runs as daemon
Collects information on the CPU
Creates or modifies files in /cron to set up autorun
Substitutes an application name
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
miner monero packed packed upx xmrig
Result
Verdict:
SUSPICIOUS
Result
Threat name:
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.evad.mine
Score:
84 / 100
Signature
Executes the "crontab" command typically for achieving persistence
Executes the "iptables" command to insert, remove and/or manipulate rules
Found strings related to Crypto-Mining
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Sample is packed with UPX
Sample tries to persist itself using cron
Tries to load the MSR kernel module used for reading/writing to CPUs model specific register
Writes to CPU model specific registers (MSR) (e.g. miners improve performance by disabling HW prefetcher)
Yara detected Xmrig cryptocurrency miner
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 signatures2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1604916 Sample: x86_64.elf Startdate: 02/02/2025 Architecture: LINUX Score: 84 40 Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule) 2->40 42 Yara detected Xmrig cryptocurrency miner 2->42 44 Sample is packed with UPX 2->44 8 x86_64.elf 2->8         started        process3 signatures4 54 Found strings related to Crypto-Mining 8->54 11 x86_64.elf 8->11         started        process5 signatures6 56 Writes to CPU model specific registers (MSR) (e.g. miners improve performance by disabling HW prefetcher) 11->56 14 x86_64.elf sh 11->14         started        16 x86_64.elf sh 11->16         started        18 x86_64.elf sh 11->18         started        20 6 other processes 11->20 process7 process8 22 sh crontab 14->22         started        26 sh crontab 14->26         started        28 sh 14->28         started        30 sh iptables 16->30         started        32 sh modprobe 18->32         started        34 sh which 20->34         started        36 sh which 20->36         started        file9 38 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/tmp.eXOV7S, ASCII 22->38 dropped 46 Sample tries to persist itself using cron 22->46 48 Executes the "crontab" command typically for achieving persistence 22->48 50 Executes the "iptables" command to insert, remove and/or manipulate rules 30->50 52 Tries to load the MSR kernel module used for reading/writing to CPUs model specific register 32->52 signatures10
Threat name:
Linux.PUA.Generic
Status:
Suspicious
First seen:
2025-02-02 06:03:05 UTC
File Type:
ELF64 Little (SO)
AV detection:
12 of 24 (50.00%)
Threat level:
  1/5
Result
Malware family:
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:xmrig antivm discovery execution linux miner persistence privilege_escalation upx
Behaviour
Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration
Reads runtime system information
Changes its process name
Checks CPU configuration
Reads CPU attributes
Checks hardware identifiers (DMI)
Creates/modifies Cron job
Enumerates running processes
Reads hardware information
Contacts a large (1891842) amount of remote hosts
Creates a large amount of network flows
XMRig Miner payload
Xmrig family
xmrig
Verdict:
Informative
Tags:
n/a
YARA:
n/a
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YARA Signatures


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Rule name:SUSP_ELF_LNX_UPX_Compressed_File
Author:Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:Detects a suspicious ELF binary with UPX compression
Reference:Internal Research
Rule name:Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:Check for Overlay, Obfuscating, Encrypting, Spoofing, Hiding, or Entropy Technique(can create FP)
Rule name:upx_packed_elf_v1
Author:RandomMalware

File information


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Web download

CoinMiner

elf 17a215c11838c6ebb792cc33fd66c6972563a3722eecf84e57beaaf89f3acfa7

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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