AdBlocker Ultimate Inject Coinhive miner script into browser

[961Host]

after doing some research i ended up on this conclusion:

some companies using CoinHive to mine in your browser without your knowledge, how i knew it ?

https://github.com/AliasIO/Wappalyzer/issues/1807

i have an addon called WAPPALYZER it shows what tech your site is made, i noticed something is confusing all websites have CoinHive plugin, EVEN GOOGLE i was WHAT! no way its a bug i went there to GITHUB i opened an issue someone told me maybe iam infected somehow with it, i was hmm that seems logic

 

on my computer i have those antiviruses:(both are paid licenses)

• Malwarebyte
• ESET Smart Security

iam reporting that neither anyone noticed it but this is a big malware issue they are using COINHIVE API to USE your CPU to MINE!

i scanned many times i disabled all my plugins nothing!!!

Edited November 8, 2017 by 961Host

[Aura]

Hi 961Host

My name is Aura and I'll be assisting you with your malware issue. Since we'll be working together, you can call me Aura or Yoan, which is my real name, it's up to you! Now that we've broke the ice, I'll just ask you a few things during the time we'll be working together to clean your system and get it back to an operational state.

• As you'll notice, the logs we are asking for here are quite lenghty, so it's normal for me to not reply exactly after you post them. This is because I need some time to analyse them and then act accordingly. However, I'll always reply within 24 hours, 48 hours at most if something unexpected happens
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• I would appreciate if you were to stay with me until the end, which means, until I declare your system clean. Just because your system isn't behaving weirdly anymore, or is running better than before, it doesn't mean that the infection is completely gone
  This being said, I have a full time job so sometimes it'll take longer for me to reply to you. Don't worry, you'll be my first priority as soon as I get home and have time to look at your thread
  

This being said, it's time to clean-up some malware, so let's get started, shall we?

Follow the instructions in the thread below, and provide me both FRST logs (FRST.txt and Addition.txt). You can attach them in your next post, or copy/paste their content.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/9573-im-infected-what-do-i-do-now/

[961Host]

thank you Yoan for your support I'm Tony and here is the requested files:

Addition.txt

FRST.txt

[Aura]

I'm curious, if you install Wappalyzer in Google Chrome, do you get the same CoinHive detection(s)?

[961Host]

after long investigations on my browser, i come to a conclusion the infection is from this addon when i enable it! it injects coin hive into my browser ,i know it is strange to believe it this particular addon causing all these problems, maybe none will notice it, but thanks to WAPPALYZER i discovered it

AdBlocker Ultimate

https://adblockultimate.net/

when i disabled this addon and i kept all other add-ons ON Coin Hive script was gone 

after reporting this bug to Wappalyzer GitHub repo, they had some problems: https://github.com/AliasIO/Wappalyzer/pull/1777#issuecomment-342202690

i think in my guess that ADDON is for free! and alot of people and me trusted them, maybe this is one of the reasons, why Wappalyzer added alot of sites false positive

 

[961Host]

this two screenshot one before disabling the addon and the  other after (you can see the add-blocker icon in browser)

Edited November 8, 2017 by 961Host

[Aura]

Nice find!

To be honest, the only "adblocker" I trust is uBlock Origin, so I would suggest that you switch to it instead. Also, I'm going to boot up a VM real quick and see if I can reproduce the issue with Adblock Ultimate and Wappalyzer.

[961Host]

i can now be 100% that, this plugin causing the problem i did the same thing on my chrome browser (after installing it i updated some filters and restarted the browser)and look, i don't know if someone need to worn them or i don't know it seems a huge amount of people are infected 80K! this is catastrophic ! Malwarebytes should do something 

[961Host]

i have reported to firefox and chrome community about this, and Malwarebytes should take this into consideration, 80K people infected with coinhive script

 

I tried to track and read all plugin code but they did a good job by hiding it alot of API's are being used to get filters and things like data and JS files to load

 

[Aura]

One of my colleague tried to reproduce your issue, but couldn't. My VMs are also down at the moment, and I didn't have the time to fix them yesterday (on both my home desktop and work laptop), so I cannot test it either. As soon as I get them fixed (tonight hopefully) I'll work on reproducing your issue.

[Aura]

Hi 961Host,

Since this is a false positive on Wappalyzer's side, I guess we can consider this issue solved?

[961Host]

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yep

[Aura]

Good

Good job on reporting that issue to the right places as well too! Hopefully the false positive will get fixed soon.

Stay safe!

[Aura]

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