Detail publikace

How to detect cryptocurrency miners? By traffic forensics!

VESELÝ, V. ŽÁDNÍK, M.

Originální název

How to detect cryptocurrency miners? By traffic forensics!

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Cryptocurrencies set a new trend for a financial interaction between people. In order to successfully meet this use-case, cryptocurrencies combine various advanced information technologies (e.g., blockchain as a replicated database, asymmetrical ciphers and hashes guaranteeing integrity properties, peer-to-peer networking providing fault-tolerant service). Mining process not only introduces new cryptocurrency units, but it has become a business how to generate revenue in real life. This paper aims at different approaches how to detect cryptocurrency mining within corporate networks (where it should not be present). Mining activity is often a sign of malware presence or unauthorized exploitation of company resources. The article provides an in-depth overview of pooled mining process including deployment and operational details. Two detection methods and their implementations are available for network administrators, law enforcement agents and the general public interested in cryptocurrency mining forensics.

Klíčová slova

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Mining pool, Mining server, Stratum protocol, GetBlockTemplate protocol, GetWork protocol

Autoři

VESELÝ, V.; ŽÁDNÍK, M.

Vydáno

19. 12. 2019

ISSN

1742-2876

Periodikum

Digital Investigation

Ročník

31

Číslo

31

Stát

Nizozemsko

Strany od

1

Strany do

14

Strany počet

25

URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.08.002

BibTex

@article{BUT159983,
  author="Vladimír {Veselý} and Martin {Žádník}",
  title="How to detect cryptocurrency miners? By traffic forensics!",
  journal="Digital Investigation",
  year="2019",
  volume="31",
  number="31",
  pages="1--14",
  doi="10.1016/j.diin.2019.08.002",
  issn="1742-2876",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.08.002"
}