HKTL_COINMINE.JL

This Hacking Tool arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Arrival Details

This Hacking Tool arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

NOTES:

This hacking tool is a bitcoin miner used to generate bitcoins. The affected machine uses high CPU power, which also requires more electricity. This may result in higher electricity bills.

This hacking tool accepts the following parameters:

• -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
•     --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 - timeout for long polling, in seconds (default: none)
• -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
•     --no-redirect - ignore requests to change the URL of the mining server
• -q, --quiet - disable per-thread hashmeter output
• -D, --debug - enable debug output
• -P, --protocol-dump - verbose dump of protocol-level activities
•     --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