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TF-MAL-ps1.ghostminer

📛 Threat Title

Malware family: GhostMiner

Category: GhostMiner First seen: Last updated: Source: ThreatFox Malwares

Description

ThreatFox malware family `ps1.ghostminer`. Printable name: GhostMiner.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

Each indicator is enriched from the IOC database, threat-intel feed corroboration (Threat Hunt) and VirusTotal. Click one to expand.

domain ps1.ghostminer VT: VT base fetch failed: HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/domains/ps1.ghostminer

IOC database

Type
domain
Value
ps1.ghostminer
First seen
Last seen
Attached to this threat
Appears in
1 threat
Description
Extracted from Threat TF-MAL-ps1.ghostminer

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Threat Hunt — feed corroboration

Not present in any configured threat-intel feed.

Details From VirusTotal

VirusTotal: VT base fetch failed: HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/domains/ps1.ghostminer

References (1)

Remediations (10)

  • web:blog.krybot.com

    GhostMiner : Unveiling the Stealthy Mining Malware In recent times, malicious cybercriminals have increasingly turned to mining software to generate revenue, joining the ranks of those who rely on ransomware for financial gain. Our research team at Minerva has discovered a new mining attack, dubbed GhostMiner , which is designed to extract XMR (Monero) cryptocurrency on a global scale without ...

  • web:malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de

    Details for the GhostMiner malware family including references, samples and yara signatures.

  • web:support.alertlogic.com

    GhostMiner uses a novel method of evasion by utilizing a couple of nested PowerShell evasion frameworks (Out-CompressedDll and Invoke-ReflectivePEInjection). These methods employ file-less techniques to conceal the presence of the malicious program. GhostMiner consists of two separate PowerShell scripts. The first is Neutrino.ps1, which is used for the propagation of the malware via ...

  • web:www.breachsense.com

    Complete malware remediation now requires addressing both the infected endpoint and the stolen authentication data. Your malware incident response playbook must account for both.

  • web:www.broadcom.com

    A multimodule malware dubbed GhostEngine has been observed in the wild. This malware leverages vulnerable drivers to terminate and delete known Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents that would likely interfere with the deployed coin miner.

  • web:www.cisa.gov

    It highlights technical approaches to uncovering malicious activity and includes mitigation steps according to best practices. The purpose of this report is to enhance incident response among partners and network administrators along with serving as a playbook for incident investigation.

  • web:www.ncsc.gov.uk

    How to defend organisations against malware or ransomware attacks.

  • web:www.newsbtc.com

    Security researchers at Minerva Labs have uncovered a new strain of cryptocurrency mining malware , dubbed GhostMiner , which uses "fileless" malware delivery techniques to land on systems. What makes it particularly remarkable is that if other crypto-jacking malware is already in the system, it will fight to remove it so it can mine Monero itself. That said, in spite of this novel and ...

  • web:www.securityweek.com

    GhostMiner crypto-mining malware has adopted the most effective techniques used by other malware families, including fileless infection attacks.

  • web:www.trendmicro.com

    We observed a fileless cryptocurrency-mining malware , dubbed GhostMiner , that weaponizes Windows management instrumentation (WMI) objects for its fileless persistence, payload mechanisms, and AV-evasion capabilities.

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