ZCash.Cryptocurrency.Miner

Description

This indicates an attempt to use a ZCash Cryptocurrency miner.
Zcash is a decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency introduced in October 2016. It's similar to Bitcoin. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private.
Please note ZCash Cryptocurrency miners are often embedded in malware and used for botnet mining.

Affected Products

ZCash Cryptocurrency Miner

Impact

Network resource consumption

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Excessive-Bandwidth

Default Ports

• TCP/80
• TCP/443
• UDP/443

References

• https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer
• https://z.cash/