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Database Entry



CoinMiner


Vendor detections: 15


Intelligence 15 IOCs YARA 29 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: ca28f4aeaa5e16d216cd828b67454a56f3c7feeb242412d26ed914fadff20d40
SHA3-384 hash: b658d99c7a4f0b6cb794f163754c0c82af6262acfcd77144e0484442eab384122f8654b6a3e9e6396159a9a10b5b620e
SHA1 hash: d532a01254cf9e0229d3c5803b78ff7c9b0cb8d3
MD5 hash: 5fba8ae226b096da3b31de0e17496735
humanhash: mexico-vermont-triple-echo
File name:file
Download: download sample
Signature CoinMiner
File size:6'364'160 bytes
First seen:2024-09-19 18:06:31 UTC
Last seen:2025-01-07 09:00:19 UTC
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 12806e48b853545b536463546db4baa1 (2 x CoinMiner)
ssdeep 98304:iONmXliGgyduIy7bWynX75rfdRZqOXmvFubCY9yxl5TtX8Ao0Ezae6B:GXlivZqOXmtubmxl5ppvEzT6
Threatray 1 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH T15F569D5AB7A400E8C87AC93CC6479613E7B1B8165370A7DB17B4676A0F33AD51E3EB10
TrID 72.7% (.CPL) Windows Control Panel Item (generic) (57583/11/19)
13.2% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10523/12/4)
6.3% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
2.5% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13)
2.5% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
Magika pebin
dhash icon f8e4b4d959d6c678 (33 x CoinMiner)
Reporter jstrosch
Tags:CoinMiner exe X64


Avatar
jstrosch
Found at hxxp://43.242.203[.]48/xmrig.exe by #subcrawl

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
2
# of downloads :
491
Origin country :
US US
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
ETCXMR2.zip
Verdict:
No threats detected
Analysis date:
2024-09-01 13:14:24 UTC
Tags:
n/a

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
99.9%
Tags:
Coinminer
Result
Verdict:
Clean
Maliciousness:
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-debug coinminer crypto fingerprint microsoft_visual_cc miner monero xmrig
Verdict:
Malicious
Labled as:
Dump:Generic.Application.CoinMiner.1
Result
Verdict:
MALICIOUS
Details
Windows PE Executable
Found a Windows Portable Executable (PE) binary. Depending on context, the presence of a binary is suspicious or malicious.
Result
Threat name:
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
mine
Score:
80 / 100
Signature
Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample
Found strings related to Crypto-Mining
Machine Learning detection for sample
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Yara detected Xmrig cryptocurrency miner
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Win32.Coinminer.XMRig
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2024-08-12 02:50:39 UTC
File Type:
PE+ (Exe)
Extracted files:
8
AV detection:
23 of 38 (60.53%)
Threat level:
  4/5
Verdict:
malicious
Label(s):
xmrig coinminer coinminer.xmrig
Result
Malware family:
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:xmrig miner
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
ca28f4aeaa5e16d216cd828b67454a56f3c7feeb242412d26ed914fadff20d40
MD5 hash:
5fba8ae226b096da3b31de0e17496735
SHA1 hash:
d532a01254cf9e0229d3c5803b78ff7c9b0cb8d3
Detections:
XMRig XMRIG_Monero_Miner MAL_XMR_Miner_May19_1
Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

YARA Signatures


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Rule name:BLOWFISH_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for Blowfish constants
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__MemoryWorkingSet
Author:Fernando Mercês
Description:Anti-debug process memory working set size check
Reference:http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2015/06/anti-debugger-trick-quicky/
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerException__SetConsoleCtrl
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:Detect_APT29_WINELOADER_Backdoor
Author:daniyyell
Description:Detects APT29's WINELOADER backdoor variant used in phishing campaigns, this rule also detect bad pdf,shtml,htm and vbs or maybe more depends
Reference:https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt29-wineloader-german-political-parties
Rule name:Detect_Malicious_VBScript_Base64
Author:daniyyell
Description:Detects malicious VBScript patterns, including Base64 decoding, file operations, and PowerShell.
Rule name:MacOS_Cryptominer_Xmrig_241780a1
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:MALWARE_Win_CoinMiner02
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects coinmining malware
Rule name:MAL_XMR_Miner_May19_1
Author:Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:Detects Monero Crypto Coin Miner
Reference:https://www.guardicore.com/2019/05/nansh0u-campaign-hackers-arsenal-grows-stronger/
Rule name:MAL_XMR_Miner_May19_1_RID2E1B
Author:Florian Roth
Description:Detects Monero Crypto Coin Miner
Reference:https://www.guardicore.com/2019/05/nansh0u-campaign-hackers-arsenal-grows-stronger/
Rule name:MD5_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for MD5 constants
Rule name:Mimikatz_Generic
Author:Still
Description:attempts to match all variants of Mimikatz
Rule name:pe_detect_tls_callbacks
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:rig_win64_xmrig_6_13_1_xmrig
Author:yarGen Rule Generator
Description:rig_win64 - file xmrig.exe
Reference:https://github.com/Neo23x0/yarGen
Rule name:RIPEMD160_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for RIPEMD-160 constants
Rule name:SEH__vectored
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:SHA1_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA1 constants
Rule name:SHA512_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants
Rule name:WHIRLPOOL_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for WhirlPool constants
Rule name:Windows_Cryptominer_Generic_f53cfb9b
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:XMRIG_Monero_Miner
Author:Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:Detects Monero mining software
Reference:https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases
Rule name:xmrig_v1
Author:RandomMalware

File information


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

Web download

CoinMiner

Executable exe ca28f4aeaa5e16d216cd828b67454a56f3c7feeb242412d26ed914fadff20d40

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

BLint


The following table provides more information about this file using BLint. BLint is a Binary Linter to check the security properties, and capabilities in executables.

Findings
IDTitleSeverity
CHECK_AUTHENTICODEMissing Authenticodehigh
CHECK_DLL_CHARACTERISTICSMissing dll Security Characteristics (GUARD_CF)high
Reviews
IDCapabilitiesEvidence
COM_BASE_APICan Download & Execute componentsole32.dll::CoCreateInstance
SECURITY_BASE_APIUses Security Base APIADVAPI32.dll::AdjustTokenPrivileges
ADVAPI32.dll::GetTokenInformation
WIN32_PROCESS_APICan Create Process and ThreadsADVAPI32.dll::OpenProcessToken
KERNEL32.dll::CloseHandle
KERNEL32.dll::CreateThread
WIN_BASE_APIUses Win Base APIKERNEL32.dll::CreateFiberEx
KERNEL32.dll::TerminateProcess
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryA
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryW
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryExW
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryExA
WIN_BASE_EXEC_APICan Execute other programsKERNEL32.dll::FillConsoleOutputAttribute
KERNEL32.dll::FillConsoleOutputCharacterW
KERNEL32.dll::WriteConsoleW
KERNEL32.dll::WriteConsoleInputW
KERNEL32.dll::FreeConsole
KERNEL32.dll::ReadConsoleA
KERNEL32.dll::ReadConsoleW
KERNEL32.dll::ReadConsoleInputW
WIN_BASE_IO_APICan Create FilesKERNEL32.dll::CopyFileW
KERNEL32.dll::CreateDirectoryW
KERNEL32.dll::CreateHardLinkW
KERNEL32.dll::CreateFileW
KERNEL32.dll::CreateFileA
KERNEL32.dll::CreateFileMappingA
WIN_BASE_USER_APIRetrieves Account InformationKERNEL32.dll::GetComputerNameA
ADVAPI32.dll::GetUserNameW
ADVAPI32.dll::LookupPrivilegeValueW
WIN_BCRYPT_APICan Encrypt Filesbcrypt.dll::BCryptGenRandom
WIN_CRYPT_APIUses Windows Crypt APICRYPT32.dll::CertDuplicateCertificateContext
CRYPT32.dll::CertEnumCertificatesInStore
CRYPT32.dll::CertFindCertificateInStore
CRYPT32.dll::CertFreeCertificateContext
CRYPT32.dll::CertGetCertificateContextProperty
CRYPT32.dll::CertOpenStore
WIN_SOCK_APIUses Network to send and receive dataWS2_32.dll::FreeAddrInfoW
WS2_32.dll::GetAddrInfoW
WS2_32.dll::WSADuplicateSocketW
WS2_32.dll::WSAIoctl
WS2_32.dll::WSARecvFrom
WS2_32.dll::WSARecv
WIN_SVC_APICan Manipulate Windows ServicesADVAPI32.dll::ControlService
ADVAPI32.dll::CreateServiceW
ADVAPI32.dll::OpenSCManagerW
ADVAPI32.dll::OpenServiceW
ADVAPI32.dll::QueryServiceConfigA
ADVAPI32.dll::QueryServiceStatus

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