A Novel Approach for Detecting Cryptocurrency Miners Using Traffic Forensics

Abstract

The idea of this approach is the invention of the cryptocurrency in the past years. This invention opens new opportunities for the financial world for buying, investing, and mining cryptocurrency. Digital currency does provide anonymity for customers and uses it because it uses blockchain technologies and provides confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, and authentication. Cryptographic is the fundamental establishment for all cryptocurrencies. As this invention, huge cryptocurrencies on the internet like Bitcoin are the first currency that was invented and others like Ethereum, Tether, and XRP. Miners are the most significant part of the cryptocurrency world. They solve a complicated math puzzle and get profit. Criminals use cryptocurrency miners by installing it in victim computers or an organization network. Even they could inject a sample javascript on any website they control to mine cryptocurrency when a victim visits their hacked site. In this paper, we will introduce how a forensic could detect and defends against a mining cryptocurrency by analyzing the network traffics manually and using public tools.