TROJ64_COINMINER.QW

This Trojan 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 downloaded by other malware/grayware from remote sites.

It requires being executed with a specific argument/parameter, an additional component, or in a specific environment in order to proceed with its intended routine.

Arrival Details

This Trojan 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 downloaded by the following malware/grayware from remote sites:

• TROJ_COINMINE.THAOIO

Other Details

This Trojan does the following:

• This Trojan is a coin miner used to generate bitcoins and it requires credentials for the mining server.
• 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.
• It accepts the following parameters:
  • -a, --algo=ALGO → cryptonight (default) or cryptonight-lite
  • -o, --url=URL → URL of mining server
  • -O, --userpass=U:P → username:password pair for mining server
  • -u, --user=USERNAME → username for mining server
  • -p, --pass=PASSWORD → password for mining server
  • -t, --threads=N → number of miner threads
  • -v, --av=N → algorithm variation, 0 auto select
  • -k, --keepalive → send keepalived for prevent timeout (need pool support)
  • -r, --retries=N → number of times to retry before switch to backup server (default: 5)
  • -R, --retry-pause=N → time to pause between retries (default: 5)
  • --cpu-affinity → set process affinity to CPU core(s), mask 0x3 for cores 0 and 1
  • --cpu-priority → set process priority (0 idle, 2 normal to 5 highest)
  • --no-huge-pages → disable huge pages support
  • --no-color → disable colored output
  • --donate-level=N → donate level, default 5% (5 minutes in 100 minutes)
  • --user-agent → set custom user-agent string for pool
  • -B, --background → run the miner in the background
  • -c, --config=FILE → load a JSON-format configuration file
  • -l, --log-file=FILE → log all output to a file
  • --max-cpu-usage=N → maximum CPU usage for automatic threads mode (default 75)
  • --safe → safe adjust threads and av settings for current CPU
  • --nicehash → enable nicehash/xmrig-proxy support
  • --print-time=N → print hashrate report every N seconds
  • --api-port=N → port for the miner API
  • --api-access-token=T → access token for API
  • --api-worker-id=ID → custom worker-id for API
  • -h, --help → display this help and exit
  • -V, --version → output version information and exit

It requires being executed with a specific argument/parameter, an additional component, or in a specific environment in order to proceed with its intended routine.