""ET POLICY Nimiq Miner Initiating Mining Session with Skypool""

SID: 2026868

Revision: 2

Class Type: policy-violation

Metadata: affected_product Windows_XP_Vista_7_8_10_Server_32_64_Bit, attack_target Client_Endpoint, created_at 2019_02_01, deployment Perimeter, malware_family CoinMiner, performance_impact Low, signature_severity Major, tag Coinminer, updated_at 2019_02_01

Reference:

  • md5

  • 2a0a5e1ed928eb01e322dd3680a13eba

Protocol: tcp

Source Network: $HOME_NET

Source Port: any

Destination Network: $EXTERNAL_NET

Destination Port: !$HTTP_PORTS

Flow: established,to_server

Contents:

  • Value: "GET" Depth: 3

  • Value: "|0d 0a|Upgrade|3a|"

  • Value: "|0d 0a|Sec-WebSocket-Version|3a|"

  • Value: "nimiq.skypool.org"

Within:

PCRE:

Special Options:

  • fast_pattern

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