Crypto miner environment variables observed

Classification:

attack

Tactic:

TA0040-impact

Technique:

T1496-resource-hijacking

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Goal

Detect when a process launches with environment variables associated with cryptocurrency miners.

Strategy

Some cryptocurrency miners support environment variables such as POOL_USER or POOL_URL to define configuration settings. This can be used to identify suspicious processes with high confidence.

Requires Agent version 7.27 or later.

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