We have been looking at the Crypto-Mining Malware Ecosystem for over a decade. This repository provides further details into our investigation, source code and data used present our findings at the 2019 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). Our analysis is live and we keep getting a better understanding of this ecosystem. We have an extended version of our IMC paper, although academic citations should look as follows for the time being:
@inproceedings{imc2019miners,
title={{A First Look at the Crypto-Mining Malware Ecosystem: A Decade of Unrestricted Wealth}},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)},
year={2019},
author={Pastrana, Sergio and Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo},
note={Extended version: \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00846}},
year={2019}
}
We next provide a summary of the most prominent campaigns found in the wild.