Cryptominers undetected by McAfee

[Former Member]

Please let me know if there is a better way to inquire about this. I have been doing some research on Cryptojacking and though I would test to see if some of the common cryptocurrency miners are flagged by McAfee.

Looking through coin miners from the top 50 list I found the following that did not get detected by McAfee:

Bitminter - https://bitminter.com/

geth - https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/

xmr-stak - https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak (Public binary release was detected but recompiling the binaries manually unfortunately gets past McAfee. Since Monero is the target for Coinhive/Crypto Loot I figured this would be a good one to test recompiling the binaries but I fear all the open source miners could be recompiled to get past McAfee detection)

vertcoin - https://github.com/vertcoin/vertcoin/releases

[Sivakumar1]

Thank you for the post. I did check with the links. I would recommend you to submit the sample if we have the samples following up the article below,

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB68030

Or if you have list of Hashes , Please update us with list and we will check with our database and will give an update.