Analysis by: Jeanne Jocson
ALIASES:

Win32/BitCoinMiner.BF potentially unsafe application (NOD32)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

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

  • Threat Type: Potentially Unwanted Application

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

Canal de infección Dropped by other malware, Downloaded from the Internet

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. It may be manually installed by a user.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tamaño del archivo 18,190,336 bytes
Tipo de archivo EXE
Residente en memoria Yes
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 17 Jul 2017

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.

It may be manually installed by a user.

Other Details

This Potentially Unwanted Application does the following:

  • It requires other components to properly execute.
  • It mines coins for GPU, FPGA and CPU.
  • It has (over)clocking and fanspeed control for Bitcoin and Derivative coins

  SOLUTION

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.800
Archivo de patrones de SSAPI: 1.607.00
Fecha de publicación del patrón SSAPI 19 Mar 2015

Step 1

Before doing any scans, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 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 PUA_BITCOINMINER. 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 this Knowledge Base page for more information.


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