Analysis by: Maria Emreen Viray
 PLATFORM:

Windows

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

  • Threat Type: Coinminer

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

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.

This is the Trend Micro detection for files that exhibit certain behaviors.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tamaño del archivo 94,720 bytes
Tipo de archivo EXE
Residente en memoria No
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 11 Feb 2021

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.

Other Details

This is the Trend Micro detection for:

  • Damaged samples of Coinminer.Win32.MALXMR variants
  • Samples detected by this pattern contains code errors, thus they fail to exhibit their intended routines

  SOLUTION

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.800
Primer archivo de patrones de VSAPI 16.532.06
Primera fecha de publicación de patrones de VSAPI 11 Feb 2021
Versión de patrones OPR de VSAPI 16.533.00
Fecha de publicación de patrones OPR de VSAPI 12 Feb 2021

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.Win32.MALXMR.DAM. 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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