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Database Entry



Mirai


Vendor detections: 8


Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 7 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 972a86c8081dbba7b85b95f1bde99d157a431b6469ba23505735e73f2e406598
SHA3-384 hash: 8b26e5db6ccbd04ff8b4fffc2e66cca3cf4cdb3fa6e125ce366592887d64484a96ef815335e323b3aa2234d2dc2e92e4
SHA1 hash: c40d0fc11aaeb970110030ad46580e7bc2ce806b
MD5 hash: e661b176694f9735e5a012f4a0d40f38
humanhash: wyoming-hawaii-undress-cold
File name:arm5
Download: download sample
Signature Mirai
File size:120'024 bytes
First seen:2026-01-02 06:29:32 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-executable
ssdeep 3072:QbUtHCGh1kSlDn5vQG1GTMtQuAnvecexFHULHimdPt0coW4nT4:QbECGh13JNQWOMtDfHULHimdlJoWQ4
TLSH T1A7C32A85BC51AA11C7C2567BFE4F428D371A53D8E3EE3203DE181F6437CB95A0E2A256
telfhash t148f0e56adfc96dcc69cd487e82b2f60506ecb2de011611858f5d164b8d42cd6b06e407
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 :
64
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Verdict:
Unknown
Threat level:
  0/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-vm expand gafgyt lolbin mirai
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
elf.32.le
First seen:
2026-01-02T06:02:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-01-02T06:17:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Status:
terminated
Behavior Graph:
%3 guuid=ab46907f-1a00-0000-993e-0a38310b0000 pid=2865 /usr/bin/sudo guuid=922d5a81-1a00-0000-993e-0a38380b0000 pid=2872 /tmp/sample.bin guuid=ab46907f-1a00-0000-993e-0a38310b0000 pid=2865->guuid=922d5a81-1a00-0000-993e-0a38380b0000 pid=2872 execve
Result
Threat name:
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj
Score:
72 / 100
Signature
Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Yara detected Mirai
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Linux.Worm.Mirai
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-01-02 06:30:25 UTC
File Type:
ELF32 Little (Exe)
AV detection:
19 of 38 (50.00%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  1/10
Tags:
n/a
Verdict:
Malicious
Tags:
Unix.Trojan.Mirai-7755770-0
YARA:
n/a
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:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:ELF_Toriilike_persist
Author:4r4
Description:Detects Torii IoT Botnet (stealthier Mirai alternative)
Reference:Identified via researched data
Rule name:linux_generic_ipv6_catcher
Author:@_lubiedo
Description:ELF samples using IPv6 addresses
Rule name:Linux_Generic_Threat_d94e1020
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:unixredflags3
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Hunts for UNIX red flags
Rule name:vmdetect
Author:nex
Description:Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

File information


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

Web download

Mirai

elf 972a86c8081dbba7b85b95f1bde99d157a431b6469ba23505735e73f2e406598

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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