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Database Entry



Mirai


Vendor detections: 9


Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 8 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 88a78f78a37005f7a0fe169b7256db92ed6632249f5216ac344f86b066b1d176
SHA3-384 hash: 8b23739e0f81efb324cb428688451e5e759eaeada80aeb548d11c70f0d484ceb41f2d73c9a6e58832d6d32f0c4938aa5
SHA1 hash: af0daeead54568ad6d56745acf4469b6c33746f8
MD5 hash: b801e73b770c0dd1ee03d704d77cdcd3
humanhash: wolfram-sad-vegan-eleven
File name:aarch64
Download: download sample
Signature Mirai
File size:357'896 bytes
First seen:2026-01-26 23:39:28 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-sharedlib
ssdeep 6144:9IrP3Z3J+bry09nvBZ10lvbllkkbKiHtQWkTLohjE0CqtyWP:9qP3Z3J+brygWrhNQWkHohttLP
TLSH T1F3746C88FB4CFB42C29193B6E9BB0623B33974207B4A56637C15213DFCD27989C67196
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 upx-dec


Avatar
abuse_ch
UPX decompressed file, sourced from SHA256 05f2094d78a5b0eadde5a545772a151e5d6908558232c8bf98574e905c84cfa4
File size (compressed) :143'768 bytes
File size (de-compressed) :357'896 bytes
Format:linux/arm64
Packed file: 05f2094d78a5b0eadde5a545772a151e5d6908558232c8bf98574e905c84cfa4

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
88
Origin country :
NL NL
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Verdict:
Likely Malicious
Threat level:
  7.5/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
gcc mirai
Verdict:
Malicious
Uses P2P?:
false
Uses anti-vm?:
false
Architecture:
arm
Packer:
not packed
Botnet:
unknown
Number of open files:
0
Number of processes launched:
0
Processes remaning?
false
Remote TCP ports scanned:
not identified
Behaviour
no suspicious findings
Botnet C2s
TCP botnet C2(s):
not identified
UDP botnet C2(s):
not identified
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
elf.64.le
First seen:
2026-01-27T08:29:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-01-27T08:56:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Status:
terminated
Behavior Graph:
%3 guuid=c8a6feb9-1e00-0000-9ff4-5cfba60a0000 pid=2726 /usr/bin/sudo guuid=114aaebd-1e00-0000-9ff4-5cfbaf0a0000 pid=2735 /tmp/sample.bin guuid=c8a6feb9-1e00-0000-9ff4-5cfba60a0000 pid=2726->guuid=114aaebd-1e00-0000-9ff4-5cfbaf0a0000 pid=2735 execve
Result
Threat name:
n/a
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
n/a
Score:
52 / 100
Signature
Contains symbols with names commonly found in malware
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1858036 Sample: aarch64.elf Startdate: 27/01/2026 Architecture: LINUX Score: 52 14 169.254.169.254, 80 USDOSUS Reserved 2->14 16 91.92.240.38, 42590, 666 THEZONEBG Bulgaria 2->16 18 3 other IPs or domains 2->18 20 Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file 2->20 22 Contains symbols with names commonly found in malware 2->22 6 dash rm 2->6         started        8 dash rm 2->8         started        10 python3.8 dpkg 2->10         started        12 aarch64.elf 2->12         started        signatures3 process4
Threat name:
Linux.Backdoor.Mirai
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-01-26 23:40:46 UTC
File Type:
ELF64 Little (SO)
AV detection:
6 of 24 (25.00%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  1/10
Tags:
linux
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:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:ELF_Mirai
Author:NDA0E
Description:Detects multiple Mirai variants
Rule name:iot_req_metachar
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:setsockopt
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Hunts for setsockopt() red flags
Rule name:testlumma
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 88a78f78a37005f7a0fe169b7256db92ed6632249f5216ac344f86b066b1d176

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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