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Cloud Packager CPU Miner

Posted: October 30, 2017

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 8/10
Infected PCs: 19
First Seen: October 30, 2017
Last Seen: June 18, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Cloud Packager CPU Miner is a Trojan miner whose purpose is to exploit the CPU and GPU resources of the victim's computer to mine a crypto-currency for the miner's author. While this action is not an immediate security threat, users affected by it are likely to notice several negative changes regarding their computers' performance and stability. Since the Cloud Packager CPU Miner uses a significant portion of the available CPU and GPU resources, users might be unable to play their favorite games or run a heavy software. In addition to this, older systems might become slower overall, and some users might even experience crashes in case their components overheat.

When the Cloud Packager CPU Miner is executed, it will create a uninstall entry under the name 'Cloud Packager 1.13.0.59.' The peculiar thing is that since the miner uses both the CPU and GPU, its victims might notice two processes that will consume an excessive amount of resources. The 'WDF.exe' process is responsible for the CPU mining operations so that it might often consume over 50% of the available CPU resources. In the meantime, the 'NvProfileUpdater64.exe' process takes care of the GPU mining, and it might be difficult to spot that it is fake since it uses the same name as a legitimate process used by NVIDIA drivers.

Although the uninstall entry might allow you to remove the Cloud Packager CPU Miner manually, we advise you to take care of this task with the help of a credible anti-virus utility. This is the best way to ensure that the Trojan miner will not be able to continue exploiting your computer's resources, and you will not have to worry about sluggish performance again.

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