CookieMiner has retrieved iPhone text messages from iTunes phone backup files.2
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CookieMiner S0492
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- macOS
- Created
- 22 July 2020
- Last modified
- 16 April 2025
CookieMiner is mac-based malware that targets information associated with cryptocurrency exchanges as well as enabling cryptocurrency mining on the victim system itself. It was first discovered in the wild in 2019.[1]
14
Techniques61st pct
11
TacticsTop 2%
0
Threat groupsNone recorded
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0492
CookieMiner has used base64 encoding to obfuscate scripts on the system.3
CookieMiner has used the curl --upload-file command to exfiltrate data over HTTP.4
CookieMiner has used a Unix shell script to run a series of commands targeting macOS.5
CookieMiner has used python scripts on the user’s system, as well as the Python variant of the Empire agent, EmPyre.6
CookieMiner has looked for files in the user's home directory with "wallet" in their name using find.7
Standing S0492
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this tool touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 825 ATT&CK software entries only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques1461st pct
61st percentile · 61% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics11Top 2%
98th percentile · 98% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Threat groups061% tie · 22 values
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Campaigns085% tie · 8 values
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique16med38th pct
38th percentile · 62% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique8.5med
Detection coverage S0492
319 distinct rules cover the 14 techniques recorded for this tool. The 329 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 319 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 222 Sigma · 97 Splunk.
13 covered by at least one rule1 with no coverage319 distinct rules in total
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