cgminer.exe

The application cgminer.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 9 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.
MD5:
4933066cc18714accd95bd949e78a657

SHA-1:
ba3483545aca66495d23214da1666c85f07877bd

SHA-256:
9594219d312125ce766985619877837c42376f2fd29b2f1a53731a19fa837fd6

Scanner detections:
9 / 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:
12/27/2024 3:29:03 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Bitcoinminer.Gen
7.11.143.238

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win32.BitCoinMiner
4.0.3.14416

ESET NOD32
Win32/BitCoinMiner.BF (variant)
8.9687

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.176.11784

McAfee
Artemis!4933066CC187
5600.7158

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Bitcoinminer.cvqyzs
0.28.0.59288

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
14.10.1.0

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0318
7.2.106

File size:
980.5 KB (1,004,046 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\start menu\programs\easy miner\backup\cgminer\4.2.0\cgminer\cgminer.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/18/2014 7:59:47 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
2.23

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:2J1p1UE1te0WuvqboOAD51JiDdzmy8c/sl8gc/ltXCxlT:sSste0ooOs5uDkyP/Q7c/zXoV

Entry address:
0x1280

Entry point:
83, EC, 1C, C7, 04, 24, 01, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, F0, C5, 4F, 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, F0, C5, 4F, 00, E8, 4B, FD, FF, FF, 8D, 74, 26, 00, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, A1, 4C, C6, 4F, 00, FF, E0, 89, F6, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, A1, 20, C6, 4F, 00, FF, E0, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 89, E5, 83, EC, 18, C7, 04, 24, 00, D0, 4B, 00, E8, 3A, 3A, 0B, 00, BA, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 04, 85, C0, 74, 15, C7, 44...
 
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Entropy:
6.3270

Code size:
739.5 KB (757,248 bytes)

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