An application compiled just weeks ago was found to be an installer for a Monero miner designed to send the mined currency to a North Korean university, AlienVault reports.

The application’s developers, however, might not be of North Korean origins themselves, the security researchers say. They also suggest that the tool could either be only an experimental application or could attempt to trick researchers by connecting to Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Once the discovered installer is run, it copies a file named intelservice.exe to the system, which is often associated with cryptocurrency mining malware. The arguments the file is executed with reveal it is a piece of software called xmrig, a program already associated with wide campaigns exploiting unpatched IIS servers to mine Monero.

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