Analysis by: Maria Emreen Viray
ALIASES:

HEUR:RiskTool.OSX.Miner.m (KASPERSKY); Misleading:MacOS/CoinMiner.BA!MTB (MICROSOFT)

 PLATFORM:

OSX

 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.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tamaño del archivo 698,576 bytes
Tipo de archivo Mach-O
Residente en memoria No
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 15 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 Coinminer does the following:

  • when executed from the terminal, it will display the following messages:
     Configuration stored in file 'config.txt'
     Please enter:
     - Please enter the currency that you want to mine:
       - arqma
       - loki
       - monero
       - randomx
       - randomx_arqma
       - randomx_loki
       - randomx_wow
       - wownero

     loki
     - Pool address: e.g. pool.example.com:3333
  • this command-line app can be used for mining various cryptocurrencies depending on user inputted configurations
  • it is a command-line instance xmr-stak miner for Mac Operating System

  SOLUTION

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.800
Primer archivo de patrones de VSAPI 16.544.04
Primera fecha de publicación de patrones de VSAPI 17 Feb 2021
Versión de patrones OPR de VSAPI 16.545.00
Fecha de publicación de patrones OPR de VSAPI 18 Feb 2021

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