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Mirai


Vendor detections: 11


Intelligence 11 IOCs YARA 14 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 164e4e436647a5baa0e5a4061f5ee10632634c1d0e29e7b5e5a5a3128c6142a5
SHA3-384 hash: 9e350c711297e889c89c31c23743c6b1bdc7f7a725231457101e155d9c6a81cc4a8f0c2e556e493391d5bea291cd3962
SHA1 hash: 1ce1b971c54df9b3ede26ad267ed1880a764a260
MD5 hash: 91cefe2fedb1a5519c0cffc0ebb87817
humanhash: johnny-failed-lake-xray
File name:nx86_64.1
Download: download sample
Signature Mirai
File size:211'408 bytes
First seen:2026-01-28 01:42:37 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-executable
ssdeep 6144:8wgSXzwGn/laiu17473mmodDbNeFIKGnnGGCyG6GGGGGGGGGGGGGjGhG3zGgm:X7vu1S3mmodsF
TLSH T184242A13BA81E9FFC486C0B54BEF6535C972F81D1535B18E2790BF621E99EA06B1C390
telfhash t14661cc342ee2364c61d6c249734ee92cfe7a04448d95b4a4af577ee5ec86bcc0c46c66
TrID 50.1% (.) ELF Executable and Linkable format (Linux) (4022/12)
49.8% (.O) ELF Executable and Linkable format (generic) (4000/1)
Magika elf
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:elf mirai

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
57
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
bash condi gafgyt gcc lolbin mirai
Verdict:
Malicious
Uses P2P?:
false
Uses anti-vm?:
true
Architecture:
x86
Packer:
not packed
Botnet:
unknown
Number of open files:
3
Number of processes launched:
2
Processes remaning?
true
Remote TCP ports scanned:
not identified
Behaviour
Anti-VM
Process Renaming
Anti-Debugging
Information Gathering
Botnet C2s
TCP botnet C2(s):
not identified
UDP botnet C2(s):
not identified
Result
Gathering data
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
elf.64.le
Detections:
HEUR:Backdoor.Linux.Mirai.b
Status:
terminated
Behavior Graph:
%3 guuid=cc990045-1600-0000-75bd-db87880c0000 pid=3208 /usr/bin/sudo guuid=dd05d046-1600-0000-75bd-db878d0c0000 pid=3213 /tmp/sample.bin guuid=cc990045-1600-0000-75bd-db87880c0000 pid=3208->guuid=dd05d046-1600-0000-75bd-db878d0c0000 pid=3213 execve guuid=f3aae346-1600-0000-75bd-db878f0c0000 pid=3215 /tmp/sample.bin dns net send-data write-file zombie guuid=dd05d046-1600-0000-75bd-db878d0c0000 pid=3213->guuid=f3aae346-1600-0000-75bd-db878f0c0000 pid=3215 clone 8b0a01dc-0728-52c1-8024-c4ba7801b8d6 8.8.8.8:53 guuid=f3aae346-1600-0000-75bd-db878f0c0000 pid=3215->8b0a01dc-0728-52c1-8024-c4ba7801b8d6 send: 58B 323879c0-ca63-5584-b232-7acf0a3f1954 yourdox.icu:6621 guuid=f3aae346-1600-0000-75bd-db878f0c0000 pid=3215->323879c0-ca63-5584-b232-7acf0a3f1954 send: 24B
Result
Threat name:
Aquabot, Gafgyt, Mirai
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj
Score:
84 / 100
Signature
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Sample reads /proc/mounts (often used for finding a writable filesystem)
Yara detected Aquabot
Yara detected Gafgyt
Yara detected Mirai
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Linux.Backdoor.Mirai
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-01-27 23:20:51 UTC
File Type:
ELF64 Little (Exe)
AV detection:
11 of 36 (30.56%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:mirai antivm discovery linux
Behaviour
Reads runtime system information
Changes its process name
Checks CPU configuration
Traces itself
Malware Config
C2 Extraction:
boats.dogmuncher.xyz
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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:ELF_IoT_Persistence_Hunt
Author:4r4
Description:Hunts for ELF files with persistence and download capabilities
Rule name:ELF_Toriilike_persist
Author:4r4
Description:Detects Torii IoT Botnet (stealthier Mirai alternative)
Reference:Identified via researched data
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_0cd591cd
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_33b4111a
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_620087b9
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_807911a2
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_9e9530a7
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_a33a8363
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_d0c57a2e
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_d4227dbf
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Gafgyt_d996d335
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:Linux_Trojan_Mirai_e0cf29e2
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:MatchByteSequence
Author:Generated by ChatGPT
Description:Rule to match specific byte sequence: 89 C8 C1 E8 08 31 D1 31 C8
Rule name:unixredflags3
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Hunts for UNIX red flags

File information


The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

Web download

Mirai

elf 164e4e436647a5baa0e5a4061f5ee10632634c1d0e29e7b5e5a5a3128c6142a5

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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