Analysis by: Raighen Sanchez
 ALIASES:

Trojan.BAT.CoinMiner (IKARUS)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Coinminer

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: No

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

Canal de infecção: Downloaded from the Internet, Dropped by other malware

This Coinminer arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tipo de compactação: 765 bytes
Tipo de arquivo: BAT
Residente na memória: No
Data de recebimento das amostras iniciais: 11 Jul 2025
Carga útil: Collects system information, Connects to URLs/IPs

Arrival Details

This Coinminer arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Installation

This Coinminer adds the following processes:

  • wmic cpu get numberofcores^|findstr "^[0-9] → retrieve the number of CPU cores in the system.
  • Antivirus.exe --disable-gpu --algorithm verushash --pool sa.vipor.net:5040 --wallet {wallet id}.Sub4 -p x -t %num% → coinmining capabilities
  • ping -n 2 localhost
  • ping -n 240 localhost
  • tasklist /NH /FI "imagename eq tskmgr.exe" → enumerate running tasks
  • taskkill /IM Antivirus.exe /F

Information Theft

This Coinminer gathers the following data:

  • Number of CPU cores
  • Current Running Tasks

Other Details

This Coinminer does the following:

  • It terminates itself if only one CPU core was found in the system.
  • It terminates itself if task manager is found running in the system.
  • It connects to a remote mining pool:
    • {BLOCKED}or.net:5040

  SOLUTION

Mecanismo de varredura mínima: 9.800
Primeiro arquivo padrão VSAPI: 20.328.07
Data do lançamento do primeiro padrão VSAPI: 15 Jul 2025
VSAPI OPR Pattern Version: 20.329.00
VSAPI OPR Pattern veröffentlicht am: 16 Jul 2025

Step 1

Before doing any scans, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 users must disable System Restore to allow full scanning of their computers.

Step 2

Scan your computer with your Trend Micro product to delete files detected as Coinminer.BAT.VIPOR.A. If the detected files have already been cleaned, deleted, or quarantined by your Trend Micro product, no further step is required. You may opt to simply delete the quarantined files. Please check the following Trend Micro Support pages for more information:


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