A Look At Threat Intel, Through The Lens Of The r77 Rootkit

It's been almost a year, but this Elastic Security write-up on the r77 rootkit popped up on my radar recently, so I thought it would be useful to do a walk-through of how someone with my background would mine open reporting such as this for actionable intel. 
In this case, the r77 rootkit is described as an "open source userland rootkit used to deploy the XMRig crypto miner". I've seen XMRig before (several times), but not deployed alongside a rootkit. …

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