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Crypto Miner User Agent

Detects suspicious user agent strings used by crypto miners in proxy logs

MITRE ATT&CK

command-and-control

Detection Query

selection:
  c-useragent|startswith:
    - "XMRig "
    - ccminer
condition: selection

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

Created

2019-10-21

Data Sources

proxy

References

Tags

attack.command-and-controlattack.t1071.001

Raw Content

title: Crypto Miner User Agent
id: fa935401-513b-467b-81f4-f9e77aa0dd78
status: test
description: Detects suspicious user agent strings used by crypto miners in proxy logs
references:
    - https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/blob/da22b3e6c45825f3ac1f208255126cb8585cd4fc/src/base/kernel/Platform_win.cpp#L65
    - https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/blob/427b6516e0550200c17ca28675118f0fffcc323f/src/version.h
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2019-10-21
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.command-and-control
    - attack.t1071.001
logsource:
    category: proxy
detection:
    selection:
        c-useragent|startswith:
        # XMRig
            - 'XMRig '
        # CCMiner
            - 'ccminer'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high