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Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.X

First posted on 06 March 2014.
Source: Microsoft

Aliases :

There are no other names known for Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.X.

Explanation :

Threat behavior Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.X is a malicious program that is unable to spread of its own accord. It may perform a number of actions of an attacker's choice on an affected computer.

Installation

Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.X copies itself to c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\java\javax.exe.

Payload

Stops processes
Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.X can stop the following processes:

• javax.exe

Contacts remote host
The malware might contact a remote host at world.ameritext.com using port 8336. Commonly, malware does this to:

• Report a new infection to its author
• Receive configuration or other data
• Download and run files, including updates or other malware
• Receive instructions from a remote hacker
• Upload data taken from your PC

This malware description was produced and published using automated analysis of file SHA1 ad910365393210eaece5f835525e5f85fa25e121.Symptoms

System changes

The following could indicate that you have this threat on your PC:

• You have these files:
  
  

c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\java\javax.exe

Last update 06 March 2014

 

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