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Database Entry



Mirai


Vendor detections: 6


Intelligence 6 IOCs YARA 14 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 66190998e6606df3b635ef7e4e1905f44a869bcce0458325abeb9f05cd02aed5
SHA3-384 hash: 21a99e3b617f7a71c79fbbfd2fe6e9eb24a573f4a25d170a5ed3409a6c291b3807935bc550356e2751a0e7d7018c10b1
SHA1 hash: d2fb2dfd6a76bfa1f59bc3ea0f14f04a99335de4
MD5 hash: e11cfb61dea8d0f073b75a88baba11b7
humanhash: winner-purple-neptune-jupiter
File name:3
Download: download sample
Signature Mirai
File size:611'686 bytes
First seen:2026-10-20 04:26:31 UTC
Last seen:2026-10-20 22:56:58 UTC
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-executable
ssdeep 12288:yau8R1tGebPyLPQVFLymAwQlA0f+fnwjz/CzeZtIufgMdngpZ4J2p5:lu8RtmQVFGm7UfkKZtCw27
TLSH T1E1D4E195F3472F46C4D7E53A948AC652475AE85B33F383093E43A6BA346D3728F28349
Magika elf
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:elf mirai

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
2
# of downloads :
78
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Kills processes
Connection attempt
Creating a file
Locks files
Deletes a file
Creating a process from a recently created file
Unmounts file systems
Launching a process
Sets a written file as executable
Runs as daemon
Manages services
Deleting a recently created file
Writes files to system directory
Gathering data
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
elf.32.le
First seen:
2026-10-20T02:01:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-10-20T02:16:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Status:
terminated
Behavior Graph:
%3 guuid=42d47289-1c00-0000-cbd2-593db20b0000 pid=2994 /usr/bin/sudo guuid=9197d78b-1c00-0000-cbd2-593db60b0000 pid=2998 /tmp/sample.bin guuid=42d47289-1c00-0000-cbd2-593db20b0000 pid=2994->guuid=9197d78b-1c00-0000-cbd2-593db60b0000 pid=2998 execve
Threat name:
Linux.Worm.Mirai
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-10-20 04:27:18 UTC
File Type:
ELF32 Little (Exe)
AV detection:
8 of 24 (33.33%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  7/10
Tags:
defense_evasion discovery persistence privilege_escalation
Behaviour
Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration
Reads runtime system information
Writes file to shm directory
Writes file to tmp directory
Changes its process name
Reads CPU attributes
Reads system network configuration
Enumerates active TCP sockets
Enumerates running processes
Modifies systemd
Reads MAC address of network interface
Reads hardware information
Removes the immutable protection flag from a file
Write file to user bin folder
Deletes itself
Executes dropped EXE
Modifies Watchdog functionality
Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

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:CP_Script_Inject_Detector
Author:DiegoAnalytics
Description:Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
Rule name:deepfield_boatnet_botnet
Author:Nokia Deepfield ERT
Description:Boatnet Linux DDoS bot with bundled XMRig miner - Polygon contract dead-drop, AES-128-GCM C2 list
Reference:117a7ca405f65e3bc770fac74903e490011c35e65e1c359e8bea546841919da3
Rule name:ELF_Packer_Dropper_Fileless_Armhf
Author:Serhii Kocherhan
Description:Detects obfuscated Linux ELF packers/droppers featuring ChaCha20/RC4 decryption, memfd_create/execveat fileless execution capabilities, and unique binary artifacts.
Rule name:enterpriseapps2
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Enterprise apps
Rule name:F01_s1ckrule
Author:s1ckb017
Rule name:linux_generic_ipv6_catcher
Author:@_lubiedo
Description:ELF samples using IPv6 addresses
Rule name:malwareelf55503
Rule name:MD5_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for MD5 constants
Rule name:MIRAI_OHSHIT_payload
Author:AfterPacket
Description:MIRAI_OHSHIT ELF payload -- compiled-in C2 set, all architectures
Reference:https://github.com/Afterpacket/drosera-threat-intel
Rule name:RIPEMD160_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for RIPEMD-160 constants
Rule name:SHA1_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA1 constants
Rule name:SHA512_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants
Rule name:TH_Generic_MassHunt_Linux_Malware_2026_CYFARE
Author:CYFARE
Description:Generic Linux malware mass-hunt rule - 2026
Reference:https://cyfare.net/
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 66190998e6606df3b635ef7e4e1905f44a869bcce0458325abeb9f05cd02aed5

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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