Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner

Short bio

Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a Trojan responsible for the denial of service attacks against Electrum bitcoin wallets.

Symptoms

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

Type and source of the infection

Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner can be dropped by exploit kits as well as by other Trojans known as Trojan.BeamWinHTTP and Smoke Loader.
Trojan.ElectrumDoSMiner uses a Trojanized wallet to flood Electrum nodes with requests.

flooding ElectrumX servers on port 50002 or 50001

Protection

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

Remediation

Malwarebytes can detect and remove {detection name} without further user interaction.

1. Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop.
2. Double-click mb3-setup-consumer-{version}.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
3. Then click Finish.
4. Once the program has fully updated, select Scan Now on the Dashboard. Or select the Threat Scan from the Scan menu.
5. If another update of the definitions is available, it will be implemented before the rest of the scanning procedure.
6. When the scan is complete, make sure that all Threats are selected, and click Remove Selected.
7. Restart your computer when prompted to do so.

Traces/IOCs

ElectrumDoSMiner infrastructure

178.159.37.113  
194.63.143.226  
217.147.169.179
188.214.135.174

Trojan.BeamWinHTTP

48dcb183ff97a05fd3e466f76f385543480abb62c9adcae24d1bdbbfc26f9e5a