MALWARE FAMILY

Coinminer

Internal ID: win.coinminer

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Coinminer is an unwanted malicious software which uses the victim's computational power (CPU and RAM mostly) to mine for coins (for example Monero or Zcash). The malware achieves persistence by adding one of the opensource miners on startup without the victim's consensus. Most sophisticated coin miners use timer settings or cap the CPU usage in order to remain stealthy.

Threat Analysis

Coinminer 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://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/01/a-coin-miner-with-a-heavens-gate/

→https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/01/a-coin-miner-with-a-heavens-gate/amp/

→https://blog.sekoia.io/privateloader-the-loader-of-the-prevalent-ruzki-ppi-service/

→https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/08/modernloader-delivers-multiple-stealers.html

→https://secrary.com/ReversingMalware/CoinMiner/

→https://thedfirreport.com/2021/01/18/all-that-for-a-coinminer/

→https://www.triskelelabs.com/investigating-monero-coin-miner

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.coinminer

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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