What's with the Ikarus virus in the installation of Awesome Miner? This test is using the official installation provided on their site.
Trojan.Bodegun
Screenshot results:
https://paste.pics/5fb9215e3a834c881b228c3708bdb3e1Via the VirusTotal website.
Is this due to the type of behavior of the miners or is this an actual infection? Exercise caution.
I am a software developer and here are my additional thoughts:
- Awesome miner could have a virus or backdoor that could activate at any time (and remove your coins).
- Any of the miners that awesome miners uses could have a virus or backdoor that could activate at any time (and awesome miner may not be aware of it).
- Any update to awesome miner could include a virus or backdoor that wasn't there previously.
- Any update to any of the miners that awesome miner uses could include a virus or backdoor that wasn't there previously.
- Ultimate any of the moving parts could play the long game and wait to activate the backdoor and then remove everyone's coins at once.
- Virus scanners aren't very helpful because they can only detect known viruses or certain patterns. It's not likely to catch anything written that is custom.
- There is a lot of money at stake and therefore a lot of motivation to go to great lengths to conceal such an initiative. Just be careful.
- It's not just your wallet you have to worry about, but all your logins to coinbase, binance, etc.