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Mirai


Vendor detections: 9


Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 4 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 4cee50d2e31b1c898c4afbc759aae495cbb3b248f13e501b6fb83d6da66531e7
SHA3-384 hash: a3921a14bf4fb494f16b8c919507a93f3faa4b98b933b90409233a0d9270177cfa572468a83e396c62d32b16159ab923
SHA1 hash: 34b72861abda6cae302fd39bb1a50d789ec511ba
MD5 hash: 25289afc340cda7a7f80693ce68a4c5a
humanhash: fourteen-leopard-apart-montana
File name:mpsl
Download: download sample
Signature Mirai
File size:240'860 bytes
First seen:2025-10-24 05:22:54 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-executable
ssdeep 3072:G9LWVPT54yyWrQ1M4qwidm2Z/tt+pSK/BCTSz0J5Y3Vmu:G9LWRubWk1M7dm21ttw4TSQJe3h
TLSH T10634C60A6B515EF7D86FDD3705F9870125CCB44762A83B3B3674C62DB91BA0B09E38A4
Magika elf
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:elf gafgyt mirai

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
85
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Deleting a recently created file
Runs as daemon
Kills processes
Opens a port
Sends data to a server
Removes directories
Mounts file systems
Connection attempt
Substitutes an application name
Verdict:
Unknown
Threat level:
  0/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
lolbin remote threat
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
elf.32.le
First seen:
2025-10-24T01:52:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2025-10-24T05:50:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Status:
terminated
Behavior Graph:
%3 guuid=8fd06012-1900-0000-0109-dcecc6110000 pid=4550 /usr/bin/sudo guuid=9df9a514-1900-0000-0109-dcecd5110000 pid=4565 /tmp/sample.bin guuid=8fd06012-1900-0000-0109-dcecc6110000 pid=4550->guuid=9df9a514-1900-0000-0109-dcecd5110000 pid=4565 execve
Result
Threat name:
Gafgyt, Mirai
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
spre.troj.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
Connects to many ports of the same IP (likely port scanning)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Reads system files that contain records of logged in users
Sample deletes itself
Sample reads /proc/mounts (often used for finding a writable filesystem)
Sample tries to kill multiple processes (SIGKILL)
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
Uses known network protocols on non-standard ports
Yara detected Gafgyt
Yara detected Mirai
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1801053 Sample: mpsl.elf Startdate: 24/10/2025 Architecture: LINUX Score: 100 75 197.190.238.231 zain-asGH Ghana 2->75 77 41.213.11.0 rainZA South Africa 2->77 79 99 other IPs or domains 2->79 81 Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic 2->81 83 Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file 2->83 85 Yara detected Gafgyt 2->85 87 3 other signatures 2->87 11 mpsl.elf 2->11         started        14 systemd gdm3 2->14         started        16 systemd gpu-manager 2->16         started        18 31 other processes 2->18 signatures3 process4 file5 95 Sample deletes itself 11->95 97 Sample reads /proc/mounts (often used for finding a writable filesystem) 11->97 21 mpsl.elf 11->21         started        24 mpsl.elf 11->24         started        34 2 other processes 11->34 26 gdm3 gdm-session-worker 14->26         started        36 3 other processes 14->36 28 gpu-manager sh 16->28         started        38 7 other processes 16->38 73 /var/log/wtmp, data 18->73 dropped 99 Reads system files that contain records of logged in users 18->99 30 accounts-daemon language-validate 18->30         started        32 generate-config pkill 18->32         started        signatures6 process7 signatures8 89 Sample tries to kill multiple processes (SIGKILL) 21->89 91 Sample reads /proc/mounts (often used for finding a writable filesystem) 21->91 40 mpsl.elf 24->40         started        42 gdm-session-worker gdm-wayland-session 26->42         started        44 sh grep 28->44         started        46 language-validate language-options 30->46         started        48 sh grep 38->48         started        50 sh grep 38->50         started        52 sh grep 38->52         started        54 4 other processes 38->54 process9 process10 56 gdm-wayland-session dbus-daemon 42->56         started        59 gdm-wayland-session dbus-run-session 42->59         started        61 language-options sh 46->61         started        signatures11 93 Sample reads /proc/mounts (often used for finding a writable filesystem) 56->93 63 dbus-daemon 56->63         started        65 dbus-run-session dbus-daemon 59->65         started        67 sh locale 61->67         started        69 sh grep 61->69         started        process12 process13 71 dbus-daemon false 63->71         started       
Threat name:
Linux.Backdoor.Gafgyt
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2025-10-24 05:23:40 UTC
File Type:
ELF32 Little (Exe)
AV detection:
14 of 24 (58.33%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  7/10
Tags:
discovery
Behaviour
Reads runtime system information
Deletes itself
Verdict:
Malicious
Tags:
Unix.Trojan.Mirai-9441505-0
YARA:
n/a
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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:CVE_2017_17215
Author:NDA0E
Description:Detects exploitation attempt of CVE-2017-17215
Rule name:ELF_Mirai
Author:NDA0E
Description:Detects multiple Mirai variants
Rule name:linux_generic_ipv6_catcher
Author:@_lubiedo
Description:ELF samples using IPv6 addresses
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 4cee50d2e31b1c898c4afbc759aae495cbb3b248f13e501b6fb83d6da66531e7

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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