HOMETHREATSKingminer
MALWARE FAMILY

Kingminer

Internal ID: win.kingminer
1
aliases
Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

According to Sophis, the botnet has been active since 2018, initially, the botmasters operated DDoS tools and backdoors, but later moved on to cryptocurrency miners. They use a DGA to automatically change the hosting

domains every week.

Threat Analysis

Kingminer 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://asec.ahnlab.com/en/32572/
→https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/06/09/kingminer-report/
→https://www.bitdefender.com/files/News/CaseStudies/study/354/Bitdefender-PR-Whitepaper-KingMiner-creat4610-en-EN-GenericUse.pdf
→https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerable-microsoft-sql-servers-targeted-with-cobalt-strike/
→https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/technical-papers/sophos-labs-kingminer-botnet-report.pdf
→https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/e/uncovering-a-kingminer-botnet-attack-using-trend-micro-managed-x.html

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family
Aliases1

Also Known As

win.kingminer

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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