[Trend]Cluster of Coins: How Machine Learning Detects Cryptocurrency-mining Malware

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Cluster of Coins: How Machine Learning Detects Cryptocurrency-mining Malware

As new trends and developments in the malicious mining of cryptocurrency emerge, a smart and sustainable way of detecting these types of threats is swiftly becoming a cybersecurity necessity. By using Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hashing (TLSH), a machine learning hash that is capable of identifying similar files, we were able to group together similar cryptocurrency-mining samples gathered from the wild. By grouping together samples based on their behavior and file types, detection of similar or modified malware becomes possible.

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