Suspicious Mining Process Creation Event

Last updated 2 months ago on 2025-12-19

Created 3 years ago on 2023-02-08

About

Identifies service creation events of common mining services, possibly indicating the infection of a system with a cryptominer.

Tags

Domain: EndpointOS: LinuxUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: ExecutionData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: CrowdstrikeData Source: SentinelOneLanguage: eql

Severity

medium

Risk Score

MITRE ATT&CK™

Execution (TA0002)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

License

Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type

Event Correlation Rule

Integration Pack

Prebuilt Security Detection Rules

Index Patterns

endgame-*logs-crowdstrike.fdr*logs-endpoint.events.file*logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*

Related Integrations

endpoint(external, opens in a new tab or window)

crowdstrike(external, opens in a new tab or window)

sentinel_one_cloud_funnel(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query

✄𐘗text code block:
✄𐘗file where host.os.type == "linux" and event.type == "creation" and event.action in ("creation", "file_create_event") and (
  (
    file.name like~ (
      "moneroocean_miner.service", "c3pool_miner.service", "pnsd.service", "apache4.service", "pastebin.service", "xvf.service"
    )
  ) or
  (
    process.executable like "/usr/local/share/aliyun-assist/*/aliyun-service" and file.name like~ "aliyun.service"
  )
)

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Suspicious Mining Process Creation Event in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).