HKTL_COINMINE.GA

This Hacking Tool may arrive bundled with malware packages as a malware component. It 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.

It does not have any propagation routine.

It does not have any backdoor routine.

It does not have any downloading capability.

Arrival Details

This Hacking Tool may arrive bundled with malware packages as a malware component.

It 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.

Propagation

This Hacking Tool does not have any propagation routine.

Backdoor Routine

This Hacking Tool does not have any backdoor routine.

Download Routine

This Hacking Tool does not have any downloading capability.

Other Details

This Hacking Tool does the following:

• This hacking tool accepts the following parameters:
  • -a, --algo=ALGO ==> specify the algorithm to use [scrypt(1024, 1, 1) (default), scrypt, sha256d, SHA-256d]
  • -o, --url=URL ==> URL of mining server (default: http://127.0.0.1:9332/)
  • -O, --userpass=U:P ==> username:password pair for mining server
  • -u, --user=USERNAME ==> username for mining server
  • -p, --pass=PASSWORD ==> password for mining server
  • --cert=FILE ==> certificate for mining server using SSL
  • -x, --proxy=[PROTOCOL://]HOST[:PORT] ==> connect through a proxy
  • -t, --threads=N ==> number of miner threads (default: number of processors)
  • -r, --retries=N ==> number of times to retry if a network call fails (default: retry indefinitely)
  • -R, --retry-pause=N ==> time to pause between retries, in seconds (default: 30)
  • -T, --timeout=N ==> network timeout, in seconds (default: 270)
  • -s, --scantime=N ==> upper bound on time spent scanning current work when long polling is unavailable, in seconds (default: 5)
  • --no-longpoll ==> disable X-Long-Polling support
  • --no-stratum ==> disable X-Stratum support
  • -q, --quiet ==> disable per-thread hashmeter output
  • -D, --debug ==> enable debug output
  • -P, --protocol-dump ==> verbose dump of protocol-level activities
  • -S, --syslog ==> use system log for output messages
  • -B, --background ==> run the miner in the background
  • --benchmark ==> run in offline benchmark mode
  • -c, --config=FILE ==> load a JSON-format configuration file
  • -V, --version ==> display version information and exit
  • -h, --help ==> display this help text and exit

NOTES:

This hacking tool is a Bitcoin miner used to generate Bitcoins.

It may be bundled with a malware to send to other machines and use the affected machine to mine for Bitcoins. The affected machine uses high CPU power, which also requires more electricity. This may result in higher electricity bills.

It does not have rootkit capabilities.

It does not exploit any vulnerability.