Analysis by: Mc Justine De Guzman
ALIASES:

MacOS:Miner-EZ [PUP] (AVAST)

 PLATFORM:

MacOS

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

  • Threat Type: Potentially Unwanted Application

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This Potentially Unwanted Application 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

Tamaño del archivo 4,789,428 bytes
Tipo de archivo Mach-O
Residente en memoria Yes
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 09 Mar 2022

Arrival Details

This Potentially Unwanted Application 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 Potentially Unwanted Application does the following:

  • This file is a copy of xmrig 6.3.3 command-line binary for mac systems
  • It accepts the following parameters:
    • -o or --url={URL} -> URL of mining server
    • -a or --algo={ALGO} -> mining algorithm
    • --coin={COIN} -> specify coin to be mined
    • -u or --user={USERNAME} -> username for mining server
    • -p or --pass={PASSWORD} -> password for mining server
    • -c or --config={FILE} -> load a JSON-format configuration file
    • -B or --background -> run the miner in the background

  SOLUTION

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.800
Primer archivo de patrones de VSAPI 1.616.00
Primera fecha de publicación de patrones de VSAPI 13 Jul 2021
Versión de patrones OPR de VSAPI 1.616.00
Fecha de publicación de patrones OPR de VSAPI 13 Jul 2021

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