MALWARE FAMILY

Monero Miner

Internal ID: win.monero_miner

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

According to ESET, first seen in-the-wild on 26th May, 2017, the malicious mining software is a fork of a legitimate open source Monero CPU miner called xmrig.

Threat Analysis

Monero Miner 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/37526/

→https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/shikitega-new-stealthy-malware-targeting-linux

→https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/10/24/node-poisoning-hijacked-package-delivers-coin-miner-and-credential-stealing-backdoor

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

→https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/09/28/monero-money-mining-malware/

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.monero_miner

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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