[clamav-users] ClamAV detects XMR-Stak as malicious. Is this a false positive?

[Al Varnell]

I suspect that it's because there are several instances of malicious software that install xmr-stak unknowingly to the user who then become a miner bot for a cybercriminal. 

If I were you I would just put it in a clamav.fp file so it will ignore your installation while still identifying any other instance that showed up.

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-Al-
ClamXAV User

> On Nov 18, 2021, at 23:23, happysmash27 via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> I decided to scan my entire /usr/ folder recently, as I heard about a malicious package in NPM and wanted to be extra sure nothing got into my system. I was slightly shocked when it finished, and it said there was 1 infected file. Unfortunately it did not list exactly what that infected file was, so I ran it again this time logging to a file and grepped that file for "FOUND", and the result was:
> 
> /usr/bin/xmr-stak: Multios.Coinminer.Miner-6781728-2 FOUND
> 
> But... XMR-Stak is _supposed_ to be a crypto miner. That is what it does. I installed it for that purpose, compiling it from source since I am on Gentoo.
> 
> So... is this a false positive then? Or is this saying something else, like, that my version of XMR-Stak has malicious code to mine on some bad actor's pool instead of the one I tell it to mine in?
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