Koske miner - Panda images and malware generated by AI
Recently I noticed the news about AI-generated malware which was hidden in images with pandas. While the main purpose of the malware is “only” cryptomining, it uses several interesting techniques which are not so common for coinminers. It uses nicely formatted and commented setup script (generated by AI). It supports wide variety of coinminers for various cryptocurrencies and for GPU and different CPU architectures. Its another component, hideproc, tries to hide the Koske miner from file listings and processes.