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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Our WorkWe 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.CampaignsAll 2K campaigns are listed in here.Top 10 campaigns (ranked by XMR)CampaignTotal PaidNum. SamplesNum. WalletsFirst Payment627163,756 XMR (20 M USD)6672016-06-13302759,620 XMR (8 M USD)2022016-10-2026842,069 XMR (323 K USD)13442015-01-2110232,886 XMR (53 K USD)5912014-09-0169327,985 XMR (95 K USD)10622014-08-30129027,086 XMR (1 M USD)91142016-06-141046523,300 XMR (2 M USD)612016-09-05331122,520 XMR (5 M USD)912016-06-13264221,389 XMR (42 K USD)4612014-09-01220220,694 XMR (38 K USD)2512014-09-01Top 10 campaigns (ranked by size -- num. samples)CampaignTotal PaidNum. SamplesNum. WalletsFirst Payment413 XMR (3 K USD)12,32712017-10-2981,011 XMR (139 K USD)11,463372014-11-154068 XMR (11 K USD)5,58922017-09-07120 XMR (2 K USD)4,91812018-04-06758 XMR (58 USD)2,95312016-10-21630 XMR (0 USD)1,97322018-09-2776207 XMR (18 K USD)1,82242017-06-13490 XMR (0 USD)1,78711999-01-019829 XMR (6 K USD)1,41732017-08-20297,261 XMR (1 M USD)1,092382017-06-17Top 10 campaigns (ranked by size -- num. wallets)CampaignTotal PaidNum. SamplesNum. WalletsFirst Payment297,261 XMR (1 M USD)1,092382017-06-1781,011 XMR (139 K USD)11,463372014-11-1528015 XMR (1 K USD)248172017-10-01129027,086 XMR (1 M USD)91142016-06-145434 XMR (6 K USD)87112017-08-0538518
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