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cgminer.exe

The application cgminer.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 7 anti-malware scanners. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power. The file has been seen being downloaded from ck.kolivas.org.
MD5:
aa5108d81652ff2b802ed1b529563e4e

SHA-1:
6280bb59b582db22cd0b712bfe72cb5f6cc25086

SHA-256:
a07e8ef03f52322ff68583f7faacc425825db35e060109a0ced4a10b0ab6af35

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
The program will mine for BitCoins using the computer's GPU in the background and may be installed and run without the user's knowledge.

Analysis date:
11/24/2024 8:55:23 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Bitcoinminer.Gen
3.6.1.96

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win32.BitCoinMiner
4.0.3.15515

ESET NOD32
Win32/BitCoinMiner.BY potentially unsafe (variant)
9.11572

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.203.15794

McAfee
Artemis!AA5108D81652
5600.6764

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0204
7.2.135

ViRobot
Trojan.Win32.A.Gena.2430278[h]
2014.3.20.0

File size:
2.3 MB (2,430,278 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\programs\cgminer.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/3/2015 10:39:43 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
2.23

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:B1m4GuU2ES0RWX0hVH/WYw2P0tyOD95OhqPc4JKYjm4bl2zzkMl0s0Rzkf+:WXmD95OhqbvazkMl0s0RzJ

Entry address:
0x1280

Entry point:
83, EC, 1C, C7, 04, 24, 01, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, C4, D5, 53, 00, E8, 6B, FD, FF, FF, 8D, 74, 26, 00, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 1C, C7, 04, 24, 02, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, C4, D5, 53, 00, E8, 4B, FD, FF, FF, 8D, 74, 26, 00, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, A1, 18, D6, 53, 00, FF, E0, 89, F6, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, A1, F0, D5, 53, 00, FF, E0, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 89, E5, 83, EC, 18, C7, 04, 24, 00, 30, 4F, 00, E8, 1A, CD, 0E, 00, BA, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 04, 85, C0, 74, 15, C7, 44...
 
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Entropy:
6.3463

Code size:
949.5 KB (972,288 bytes)

The file cgminer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/.../cgminer.exe

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