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Database Entry

Kinsing

Vendor detections: 8

Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	a6e41cc8f7238b02699c823c4364355573fdefadc1e734102c9346b5d9b5ef65
SHA3-384 hash:	c2b945d836e838229fe7c5291a4126877163ed24c5a5c98fb94c4446175342fda716b953b7a107ec5c565b23a9db9cd1
SHA1 hash:	bcabf7a9312510b1aa4481d2332622cc2e77f659
MD5 hash:	b5683e03d49874f7e1f74eeb328b0851
humanhash:	snake-aspen-solar-oxygen
File name:	gi.sh
Download:	download sample
Signature	Kinsing Create hunting rule
File size:	16'003 bytes
First seen:	2025-05-09 12:18:59 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	sh
MIME type:	text/x-shellscript
ssdeep	384:r5JLwlH2wx2vUaQa5/eN86704s80ooJQYgykWT4yCtvUsDjdWOoJw6K:t17YJDj8OoJw6K
TLSH	T16A722F8EB011ED742A6DC4B5DCE2287D602BA0098D623F40B4546E78679DA05A7B9BFC
Magika	shell
Reporter	abuse_ch
Tags:	Kinsing sh

Shell script dropper

This file seems to be a shell script dropper, using wget, ftpget and/or curl. More information about the corresponding payload URLs are shown below.

URL	Malware sample (SHA256 hash)	Signature	Tags
http://78.153.140.66/curl-amd64	6b9e23cb675be370a18a0c4482dc566be28920d4f1cd8ba6b4527f80acf978d3	Kinsing	elf kinsing ua-wget
http://78.153.140.66/curl-aarch64	n/a	n/a	elf ua-wget

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Detection(s):

Txt.Malware.Sustes-6779550-1

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

70%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=681df38de16384d6a70340f9linux22vpnfull_triage

Tags:

malware

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

10/10

Confidence:

100%

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/681df2dad95f3e34e96521f1/reports/19974848-692e-4199-a6f2-46f47069e6cf/overview

Score:

62%

Verdict:

Susipicious

File Type:

SCRIPT

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/a6e41cc8f7238b02699c823c4364355573fdefadc1e734102c9346b5d9b5ef65

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/a6e41cc8f7238b02699c823c4364355573fdefadc1e734102c9346b5d9b5ef65/

Threat name:

Linux.Exploit.CVE-2020-7961

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2025-05-09 12:19:39 UTC

File Type:

Text (Shell)

AV detection:

16 of 24 (66.67%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=u3sbzshxeofqe2m4qi6egzbvkvz7335nyhttiebmsndllwnv55sq._file

Result

Malware family:

kinsing_rootkit

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:kinsing family:kinsing_rootkit antivm defense_evasion discovery exection execution linux loader persistence privilege_escalation rootkit

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/250509-phc4gatybs/

Behaviour

Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration

Process Discovery

Reads runtime system information

System Network Configuration Discovery

Writes file to tmp directory

Checks CPU configuration

Reads CPU attributes

Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Sudo and Sudo Caching

Attempts to change immutable files

Creates/modifies Cron job

Enumerates running processes

Modifies systemd

Reads list of loaded kernel modules

File and Directory Permissions Modification

Executes dropped EXE

Flushes firewall rules

Loads a kernel module

Modifies the dynamic linker configuration file

Kinsing

Kinsing Rootkit

Kinsing Rootkit payload

Kinsing family

Kinsing payload

Kinsing_rootkit family

Malware family:

H2Miner

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/a6e41cc8f723/report/overview.html

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

Threat name:

Suspicious File

Score:

0.44

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/a6e41cc8f7238b02699c823c4364355573fdefadc1e734102c9346b5d9b5ef65

YARA Signatures

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Rule name:	Linux_Trojan_Kinsing_2c1ffe78 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	MAL_Payload_F5_BIG_IP_Exploitations_Jul20_1 Create hunting rule
Author:	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:	Detects code found in report on exploits against CVE-2020-5902 F5 BIG-IP vulnerability by NCC group
Reference:	https://research.nccgroup.com/2020/07/05/rift-f5-networks-k52145254-tmui-rce-vulnerability-cve-2020-5902-intelligence/