Analysis by: Cris Nowell Pantanilla

ALIASES:

not-a-virus:HEUR:RiskTool.Linux.BitCoinMiner.e (Kaspersky)

 PLATFORM:

Linux

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 REPORTED INFECTION:

  • Threat Type: Potentially Unwanted Application

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: No

  • 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. It may be manually installed by a user.

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

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tamaño del archivo 3,938,712 bytes
Tipo de archivo ELF
Residente en memoria No
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 06 Dec 2016

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 is the Trend Micro detection for:

  • Applications used to generate Bitcoins on the affected machine. The mining process eats up a system's computing power. As such, infected systems sustain increased wear and tear from processing coin blocks and the infected systems will work abnormally slow.

  SOLUTION

Motor de exploración mínimo 9.850
Primer archivo de patrones de VSAPI 12.942.5
Primera fecha de publicación de patrones de VSAPI 06 Dec 2016
Versión de patrones OPR de VSAPI 12.943.00
Fecha de publicación de patrones OPR de VSAPI 07 Dec 2016

Scan your computer with your Trend Micro product to delete files detected as PUA_CoinMiner. 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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