{"id":8400,"date":"2018-08-03T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/29201\/MikroTik-Routers-Become-Coinhive-Cryptojacking-Campaign.html"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:43:53","slug":"mikrotik-routers-become-coinhive-cryptojacking-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/mikrotik-routers-become-coinhive-cryptojacking-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"MikroTik Routers Become Coinhive Cryptojacking Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive cryptojacking campaign has struck Brazil through the enslavement of MikroTik routers and networking devices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedContent alignRight\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"><span class=\"int\">More security news<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin, on July 31, a surge in Coinhive activity was detected which indicated that a malicious cryptocurrency mining operation was underway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustwave.com\/Resources\/SpiderLabs-Blog\/Mass-MikroTik-Router-Infection-%E2%80%93-First-we-cryptojack-Brazil,-then-we-take-the-World-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a blog post<\/a>, the researcher said that upon further examination, it appeared to be MikroTik devices that are involved.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia-based MikroTik provides network equipment for customers worldwide, and in this campaign, Brazil is the main country which has been targeted.<\/p>\n<p>It might have been a strange coincidence and nothing more than a set of compromises occurring at the same time, but Kenin noticed that all of the devices were using the same Coinhive sitekey.<\/p>\n<p>Coinhive is legitimate software used, generally in-browser, by websites to borrow visitor CPU power temporarily in order to mine the virtual currency Monero. Widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hackers-hijack-coinhive-dns-server-through-an-old-password\/\" target=\"_blank\">abuse of the script<\/a> has led to many antivirus and cybersecurity solutions companies blocking the script.<\/p>\n<p>If the same sitekey was in use, this indicates that all of the devices involved were mining for virtual gold on behalf of one controlling entity.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_ZD_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>While Trustwave estimated that up to 175,000 devices have been compromised, security researcher Troy Mursch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/massive-coinhive-cryptojacking-campaign-touches-over-200-000-mikrotik-routers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Bleeping Computer<\/a> that a second sitekey is in use by roughly 25,000 routers.<\/p>\n<p>If both keys are the work of the same threat actor, this brings the count to roughly 200,000.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/08\/03\/d0085920-23af-428c-9cca-87e454923559\/resize\/770xauto\/60a85ac424b0ac92ce7f465a3760c278\/screen-shot-2018-08-03-at-09-18-11.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"screen-shot-2018-08-03-at-09-18-11.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"770\"\/><\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Trustwave<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It took some digging by the researcher to find a link between the Coinhive activity spike and MikroTik. A router developed by the company was traced back to a compromise in a hospital in Brazil, and an individual having trouble with their own system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/InternetBrasil\/comments\/92vv29\/preciso_de_ajuda_um_script_de_minerar_coins_est%C3%A1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on Reddit<\/a> at roughly the same time in a bid to find help provided some clues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TechRepublic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/google-killing-chrome-extensions-for-mining-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google killing Chrome extensions for mining cryptocurrency<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The user in question said that every web page they visited injected the Coinhive code, and neither changing the DNS or removing the router helped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, it&#8217;s worth noting that MikroTik routers are used by Internet providers and big organizations, and in this case, it seems that the Reddit post&#8217;s author&#8217;s ISP had their router compromised, same as the router of the hospital I mentioned earlier in the post,&#8221; the researcher said.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalwareHunterBR\/status\/1023893755974352896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> from MalwareHunter then provided a link.<\/p>\n<p>The message mentioned a &#8220;mass exploitation&#8221; of MikroTik devices. However, the vulnerability which allowed the firm&#8217;s routers to become cryptocurrency mining slaves was no zero-day; instead, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2018-14847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CVE-2018-14847<\/a>, a known security bug impacting Winbox for MikroTik RouterOS.<\/p>\n<p>Through version 6.42 of the software, remote attackers are able to bypass authentication and read arbitrary files by modifying a request to change one byte related to a Session ID, according to the vulnerability description.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-pirate-bay-turns-transparent-can-cryptocurrency-mining-really-replace-ads\/\">The Pirate Bay turns transparent: Can cryptocurrency mining really replace ads?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mass-exploit of these devices is not necessarily the vendor&#8217;s fault. The bug was patched within a day of discovery, but sadly, hundreds of thousands of devices have not been updated, leaving them vulnerable to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>By utilizing the security flaw, the threat actor responsible for the campaign was able to compromise the routers to inject the Coinhive script into every web page visited by the user.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known who is behind the campaign, but Kenin believes that &#8220;the attacker is clearly showing a high level of understanding of how these MikroTik routers work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNET: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/bitcoin-hack-makes-cryptocurrency-value-tumble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitcoin value dips in wake of South Korean exchange hack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This campaign is yet another example of what can happen on a vast scale should individual devices not receive security updates.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/mirai-botnet-adds-three-new-attacks-to-target-iot-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mirai IoT botnet<\/a> was able to wreck devastation due to unsecured, consumer home devices, the individual security of our devices needs to be taken more seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ransomware awareness has increased significantly so, in many cases, even if an attacker manages to encrypt files users these days have backups,&#8221; the researcher added. &#8220;This means that they don&#8217;t pay the ransom as frequently as they used to. Miners, on the other hand, can be a lot more stealthy, so while a single computer would yield more money from ransomware if the user ends up paying, an attacker would prefer to run a stealthy miner for a longer period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Previous and related coverage<\/h3>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/29201\/MikroTik-Routers-Become-Coinhive-Cryptojacking-Campaign.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2480],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlinehackermalwareflawbackdoorcryptography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the 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