CoinMiner are Evasive

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CoinMiners are on the rise, trending so high that in the last couple of month they almost completely replaced ransomware in both media and the research community. Unlike ransomware which profit from rapid encryption of user’s data taken hostage, CoinMiners profit comes from high jacking computer resources. As long as the CoinMiner stays undetected and stealth, the higher its author profit. In this talk we will focus on the unexplored territory of CoinMiner evasive maneuver and functionality to avoid getting found by its victims and provide tactics and tools to combat them. Description: CoinMiners (often called cryptojacking) are a new and unexplored threat. It’s becoming one of the “go-to” profit channel of many known malware groups such as exploit kit authors, trojans and spam bots. With its increasing reputation and fame, it’s very important to reveal the tactic which makes it so effective. Both of this keynote speakers are, expert in the field of malware evasive technique and we aim this talk to become a CoinMiner combat guide and reference for other researchers. We are planning to release many open source tools a long with this keynote which will make CoinMiners hunting much more easy and scalable.