Analysis by: Rheniel Rhay Ramos
ALIASES:

RDN/ADB.Miner (McAfee); Backdoor:Linux/Mirai!rfn (Microsoft); Andr/AdbMiner-A (Sophos)

 PLATFORM:

Android

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

  • Threat Type: Coinminer

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: No

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This Coinminer arrives as a component bundled with malware/grayware packages.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size: 169,624 bytes
File Type: ELF
Memory Resident: No
Initial Samples Received Date: 07 Feb 2018

Arrival Details

This Coinminer arrives as a component bundled with malware/grayware packages.

Other Details

This Coinminer does the following:

  • It searches for all devices with enabled 5555 adb ports.
  • It will use specific commands to propagate the following files to the specific folders:
    • /data/local/tmp/sss -> detected asCoinminer_MALXMR.BB-ELF32
    • /data/local/tmp/nohup
    • /data/local/tmp/bot.dat -> detected as Coinminer_MALXMR.BC-CFG

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine: 9.850
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN FILE: 13.964.08
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN DATE: 13 Feb 2018
VSAPI OPR PATTERN File: 13.965.00
VSAPI OPR PATTERN Date: 14 Feb 2018

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Step 2

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