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Database Entry

Gafgyt

Vendor detections: 8

Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	016977809e4f92e85771c7ab83850f50b6059909db348063f6d926af4d4f5583
SHA3-384 hash:	74b727c507608bb0d8236bd592b8a3b3fa0a2f857d0b73da707ba4823b4e26a9c1f901854e8456ac9da5e3bfe28e6fde
SHA1 hash:	01830b3e41aade92c1c4c56c2434319633f3e126
MD5 hash:	158e0fdfab6c38fa7c59ad5e5c3b6c65
humanhash:	don-beer-dakota-king
File name:	sex.sh
Download:	download sample
Signature	Gafgyt Create hunting rule
File size:	1'600 bytes
First seen:	2026-01-09 23:12:48 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	sh
MIME type:	text/x-shellscript
ssdeep	24:vwo7+woOwqc4kwzaswPwSsw3bwqsw/wcOwtyaFwYKw4:vd6dOQ4kYb4sc8oZOaZo3
TLSH	T15E3175CA21B21F74ED96A927727E4C4435DAF1CB20C99F58ADEE38F5448CE14B404693
TrID	70.0% (.SH) Linux/UNIX shell script (7000/1) 30.0% (.) Unix-like shebang (var.3) (gen) (3000/1)
Magika	shell
Reporter	abuse_ch
Tags:	gafgyt sh

Shell script dropper

This file seems to be a shell script dropper, using wget, ftpget and/or curl. More information about the corresponding payload URLs are shown below.

URL	Malware sample (SHA256 hash)	Signature	Tags
http://151.243.109.102/mips	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/mipsel	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/sh4	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/x86	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/arm61	cf68e1fd5fa92a9f8ada70cc9f848b2933ea971a482e7c2ecd3cd5ad5dd3bb31	Gafgyt	elf gafgyt ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/i686	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/ppc	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/586	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/m68k	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/dc	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/dss	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/co	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget
http://151.243.109.102/scar	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

No detections

Detection(s):

Sanesecurity.Malware.30790.LX.BOT.UNOFFICIAL

SecuriteInfo.com.Linux.Downloader-29.UNOFFICIAL

SecuriteInfo.com.Linux.Downloader-6.UNOFFICIAL

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

10/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

evasive medusa mirai

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/69618ba107ef5fa68e835a22/reports/a6e79880-3f8f-4d9a-968b-9a16686ecfd5/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

unix shell

First seen:

2026-01-09T20:17:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-01-09T20:49:00Z UTC

Hits:

~10

Detections:

HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.a HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.p HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.gen HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.cx

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/016977809e4f92e85771c7ab83850f50b6059909db348063f6d926af4d4f5583/results?tab=lookup

Status:

terminated

Link:

https://sandbox.kunai.rocks/analysis/dba02c47-a4e5-417b-a5ee-4e3116c51214

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Score:

100%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

SCRIPT

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/016977809e4f92e85771c7ab83850f50b6059909db348063f6d926af4d4f5583

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/016977809e4f92e85771c7ab83850f50b6059909db348063f6d926af4d4f5583/

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat:

Family.GAFGYT

Link:

https://tip.neiki.dev/file/016977809e4f92e85771c7ab83850f50b6059909db348063f6d926af4d4f5583

Threat name:

Linux.Downloader.Morila

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-01-09 23:13:41 UTC

File Type:

Text (Shell)

AV detection:

17 of 24 (70.83%)

Threat level:

3/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=afuxpae6j6joqv3ry6vyhbipkc3algij3m2iay7w3etk6tkpkwbq._file

Result

Malware family:

gafgyt

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:gafgyt botnet defense_evasion discovery linux

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260109-27p6jsev8b/

Behaviour

System Network Configuration Discovery

Writes file to tmp directory

Changes its process name

File and Directory Permissions Modification

Executes dropped EXE

Detected Gafgyt variant

Gafgyt family

Gafgyt/Bashlite

Malware Config

C2 Extraction:

151.243.109.102:666

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

Threat name:

Suspicious File

Score:

0.42

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/016977809e4f92e85771c7ab83850f50b6059909db348063f6d926af4d4f5583

YARA Signatures

MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:	ach_202412_suspect_bash_script Create hunting rule
Author:	abuse.ch
Description:	Detects suspicious Linux bash scripts

Rule name:	MAL_Linux_IoT_MultiArch_BotnetLoader_Generic Create hunting rule
Author:	Anish Bogati
Description:	Technique-based detection of IoT/Linux botnet loader shell scripts downloading binaries from numeric IPs, chmodding, and executing multi-architecture payloads
Reference:	MalwareBazaar sample lilin.sh