MALWARE FAMILY

LiquorBot

Internal ID: elf.liquorbot

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

BitDefender tracked the development of a Mirai-inspired botnet, dubbed LiquorBot, which seems to be actively in development and has recently incorporated Monero cryptocurrency mining features. Interestingly, LiquorBot is written in Go (also known as Golang), which offers some programming advantages over traditional C-style code, such as memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and even CSP-style concurrency.

Threat Analysis

LiquorBot is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.

External References

→https://labs.bitdefender.com/2020/01/hold-my-beer-mirai-spinoff-named-liquorbot-incorporates-cryptomining/

→https://www.zdnet.com/article/naive-iot-botnet-wastes-its-time-mining-cryptocurrency/

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

elf.liquorbot

Research Links

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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.

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