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svchost.exe

The application svchost.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 26 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. Although this file uses the name svchost.exe, this is NOT the Windows SvcHost (Service Host) distributed with the OS. The file has been seen being downloaded from m.0459f1e5dc998dc996096e9552b42918.com and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
8266853129d7929c2c384c3cb10ce5a7

SHA-1:
b3d99b671998e084947d775a1835b2f7588832ca

SHA-256:
ed6faf56b34c29c6dfd4f69ed2949de0a70a934ca60f5e963d81243c46ddf349

Scanner detections:
26 / 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:
12/28/2024 1:05:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bitcoinminer.CC
1138

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.BitMiner
2014.01.21

Avira AntiVirus
SPR/BitCoinMiner.AF
7.11.125.218

avast!
Win32:BitCoinMiner-DN [PUP]
2014.9-131224

AVG
Skodna.BitCoinMiner
2015.0.3588

Baidu Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.BitCoinMiner
4.0.3.131224

Bitdefender
Application.Bitcoinminer.CC
1.0.20.1790

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
17644

ESET NOD32
Win32/BitCoinMiner.AF (variant)
7.9311

F-Secure
Application.Bitcoinminer.CC
11.2013-24-12_3

G Data
Application.Bitcoinminer.CC
13.12.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.SuspectCrc
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.175.10881

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner
14.0.0.4433

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Cgminer
v2013.12.24.04

McAfee
RDN/Generic PUP.x!bqv
5600.7272

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bitcoinminer.CC
14.0.0.1074

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BitCoinMiner.csjgrg
0.28.0.57029

Norman
Suspicious_Gen4.FKGOY
11.20131224

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.164A95DA!373986778
23.00.65.14119

Sophos
Generic PUA LD
4.96

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00AC14
7.2.358

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00AC14
10.465.21

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
25610

ViRobot
Trojan.Win32.S.BitMiner.964622
2011.4.7.4223

XVirus List
Win.Detected
2.3.31

File size:
942 KB (964,622 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\windows\temp\svchost.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/31/2013 6:34:29 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
2.23

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:yudJ1Pj827KuXCw10zuz4lDpLNIfOdcbcS9dqdAFL:yudJ1PjRKuXCw1b8DpL2fq0cCdqAx

Entry address:
0x1280

Entry point:
83, EC, 1C, C7, 04, 24, 01, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 9C, 86, 51, 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, 9C, 86, 51, 00, E8, 4B, FD, FF, FF, 8D, 74, 26, 00, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, A1, F8, 86, 51, 00, FF, E0, 89, F6, 8D, BC, 27, 00, 00, 00, 00, A1, CC, 86, 51, 00, FF, E0, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 89, E5, 83, EC, 18, C7, 04, 24, 00, 80, 4B, 00, E8, F2, F1, 0A, 00, BA, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 04, 85, C0, 74, 15, C7, 44...
 
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Entropy:
6.3512

Code size:
716.5 KB (733,696 bytes)

The file svchost.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://m.0459f1e5dc998dc996096e9552b42918.com/.../svchost.exe

http://m.0839f88ae61efaa3e91fdf5b732b242f.com/.../svchost.exe

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