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Either that or it's mining crypto
Crypto mining would be symmetrical up/down though. This is only a small amount of data downloaded, and a huge amount uploaded. That looks more like a botnet attack, where an attacker hacked the machine and pointed it at a target, then just left it to run.
Imagine the poor bastard who gets arrested for their washing machine ddos'ing people.
In and out is not high in crypto mining. It's mostly a cpu/power hog.