title: Crypto Miner User Agent
id: fa935401-513b-467b-81f4-f9e77aa0dd78
status: test
description: Detects suspicious user agent strings used by crypto miners in proxy logs
author: Florian Roth
references:
  - https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/blob/da22b3e6c45825f3ac1f208255126cb8585cd4fc/src/base/kernel/Platform_win.cpp#L65
  - https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/blob/427b6516e0550200c17ca28675118f0fffcc323f/src/version.h
date: 2019/10/21
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  category: proxy
detection:
  selection:
    c-useragent|startswith:
        # XMRig
      - 'XMRig '
        # CCMiner
      - 'ccminer'
  condition: selection
fields:
  - ClientIP
  - c-uri
  - c-useragent
falsepositives:
  - Unknown
level: high
tags:
  - attack.command_and_control
  - attack.t1071.001
