sustes miner

First seen
2018-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
cryptominer, downloader
Profile updated
2026-07-07 14:30:26

Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications energy-and-utilities

Context

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself (it’s not a worm) but it is spread over exploitation and brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. The initial infection stage comes from a custom wget directly on the victim machine followed by a simple /bin/bash mr.sh. The script is a simple bash script which drops and executes additional software.

Reports & references

  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Elf.Sustes (report)
  • marcoramilli.com — Sustes Malware Cpu For Monero (report)

External references