SUSP_XMRIG_Reference


Description

Detects an executable with a suspicious XMRIG crypto miner reference

Query · yara

strings:
      $x1 = "\\xmrig\\" ascii
   condition:
      uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 2000KB and 1 of them
}

rule SUSP_Just_EICAR {
   meta:
      description = "Just an EICAR test file - this is boring but users asked for it"
      author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)"
      reference = "http://2016.eicar.org/85-0-Download.html"
      date = "2019-03-24"
      score = 40
      hash1 = "275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f"
      id = "e5eedd77-36e2-56a0-be0c-2553043c225a"
   strings:
      $s1 = "X5O!P%@AP[4\\PZX54(P^)7CC)7
Raw source SUSP_XMRIG_Reference · YARA
Esc
Published by Neo23x0/signature-base ↗, licensed under Detection Rule License 1.1 ↗. Reproduced here unmodified.
rule SUSP_XMRIG_Reference {
   meta:
      description = "Detects an executable with a suspicious XMRIG crypto miner reference"
      author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)"
      reference = "https://twitter.com/itaitevet/status/1141677424045953024"
      date = "2019-06-20"
      score = 70
      id = "0a7324ce-90dc-5e6a-b22a-c29eccf324e9"
   strings:
      $x1 = "\\xmrig\\" ascii
   condition:
      uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 2000KB and 1 of them
}

rule SUSP_Just_EICAR {
   meta:
      description = "Just an EICAR test file - this is boring but users asked for it"
      author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)"
      reference = "http://2016.eicar.org/85-0-Download.html"
      date = "2019-03-24"
      score = 40
      hash1 = "275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f"
      id = "e5eedd77-36e2-56a0-be0c-2553043c225a"
   strings:
      $s1 = "X5O!P%@AP[4\\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}

Detection rules belong to the projects that publish them and remain under their own licenses. This site indexes and links to them; it claims no rights in them.