Cloud Packager CPU Miner
Posted: October 30, 2017
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 19 |
First Seen: | October 30, 2017 |
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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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