HighSigmaHQ Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) +1

Network Communication With Crypto Mining Pool

Detects initiated network connections to crypto mining pools. It indicates that the system is likely infected with a crypto miner malware or is being used for crypto mining.

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Detection requirements

Platform: Containers IaaS Linux macOS SaaS Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: network_connection

Known benign triggers

Unlikely

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
github.com/stamparm/maltrail/blob/da082537e0f37b9dece3a6998583e43bb5709c4e/trails/static/suspicious/crypto_mining.txt	Tool	Only this detection cites it
www.poolwatch.io/coin/monero	Unclassified	4
www.virustotal.com/gui/search/behaviour_network%253A*.miningocean.org/files	Sandbox submission	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Network Communication With Crypto Mining Pool

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

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