Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner

Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a Trojan responsible for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Electrum bitcoin wallets.

Users of affected computers may experience slowdowns in internet speed as they are joined to a botnet that performs DDoS attacks.

Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner can be dropped by exploit kits as well as by other Trojans known as Trojan.BeamWinHTTP and Smoke Loader.

This Trojan uses a Trojanized wallet to flood Electrum nodes with requests.

Flooding ElectrumX servers on port 50002 or 50001

Malwarebytes protects users from Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner by using real-time protection.

Malwarebytes also blocks the known IPs that host the botnet Trojan.

Malwarebytes blocks the IP 178.159.37.113

Malwarebytes can detect and remove Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner without further user interaction.

Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop.
Double-click MBSetup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
When your Malwarebytes for Windows installation completes, the program opens to the Welcome to Malwarebytes screen.
Click on the Get started button.
Click Scan to start a Threat Scan.
Click Quarantine to remove the found threats.
Reboot the system if prompted to complete the removal process.

You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.

Nebula endpoint tasks menu

Choose the Scan + Quarantine option. Afterwards you can check the Detections page to see which threats were found.

On the Quarantine page you can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.

ElectrumDoSMiner infrastructure

178.159.37.113  
194.63.143.226  
217.147.169.179
188.214.135.174

Trojan.BeamWinHTTP

48dcb183ff97a05fd3e466f76f385543480abb62c9adcae24d1bdbbfc26f9e5a