🤲🏼 NEW | abuse.ch Community Hub! Earn recognition 🏅 for the malware intelligence you share, climb the leaderboards 📈, and connect with like-minded contributors who share your hunting focus 🤝. Ready to unlock your profile? Go to the Community Hub →

MalwareBazaar Database

You are currently viewing the MalwareBazaar entry for SHA256 b116aefeb274d95fdd609567f73885e39621a2c72d9b10eb271c1f3a29389f08. While MalwareBazaar tries to identify whether the sample provided is malicious or not, there is no guarantee that a sample in MalwareBazaar is malicious.

Database Entry



Snowlight


Vendor detections: 11


Intelligence 11 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: b116aefeb274d95fdd609567f73885e39621a2c72d9b10eb271c1f3a29389f08
SHA3-384 hash: 0b1b691198579fc4993c54c945aba1b4eb8cb39c0e731f853420d581047f5b505abbc538ccbc4bdce885cf4299a1141f
SHA1 hash: 76c2c36e8df9b8bcb98718e3dfd52df812f3aa5c
MD5 hash: 74aba272c28332473f009fdbf8a87467
humanhash: quiet-undress-november-neptune
File name:b116aefeb274d95f.bin
Download: download sample
Signature Snowlight
File size:9'800 bytes
First seen:2026-10-19 00:25:47 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type: elf
MIME type:application/x-executable
ssdeep 96:GqTVJWWGXzS6ZH5ML09V1J9G8Ym6O+hrsrwegVekrf7mxaamBFBp8sBRnsH5vZAC:GqnWWH6ZMWT1YmMhrsnurfjTr8sbnsl
TLSH T169124047A2D0CE3FC8D953384467122472B394BEDF629713064915B63F427E81E2EB8B
telfhash t112b09b025470515d9bf561781c2588971245c1a3c5415f505d51f7549a3f48d905cb55
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 Tuxxin
Tags:elf SNOWLIGHT vshell

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
90
Origin country :
US US
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Sends data to a server
Creating a process from a recently created file
Connection attempt
Creating a file
Receives data from a server
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
gcc golang masquerade vshell
Verdict:
Malicious
Uses P2P?:
false
Uses anti-vm?:
false
Architecture:
x86
Packer:
not packed
Botnet:
unknown
Number of open files:
9
Number of processes launched:
1
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:
2026-10-16T20:08:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-10-20T18:35:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Status:
terminated
Behavior Graph:
%3 guuid=d8f15864-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6fe0a0000 pid=2814 /usr/bin/sudo guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815 memfd:a net send-data write-file guuid=d8f15864-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6fe0a0000 pid=2814->guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815 execve 2c163527-436d-5e75-9a1e-a96372c8d65f 81.70.143.19:4567 guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815->2c163527-436d-5e75-9a1e-a96372c8d65f send: 754B guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5146 memfd:a guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815->guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5146 clone guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5147 memfd:a net send-data guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815->guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5147 clone guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5148 memfd:a guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815->guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5148 clone guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5149 memfd:a send-data guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=2815->guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5149 clone guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5147->2c163527-436d-5e75-9a1e-a96372c8d65f send: 485B guuid=80dc7168-1a00-0000-44a1-74f6ff0a0000 pid=5149->2c163527-436d-5e75-9a1e-a96372c8d65f send: 486B
Result
Threat name:
SNOWLIGHT, VShell
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj
Score:
88 / 100
Signature
Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample
Antivirus detection for dropped file
Found malware configuration
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Yara detected SNOWLIGHT
Yara detected VShell
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Linux.Trojan.Snowlight
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-10-16 21:32:14 UTC
File Type:
ELF64 Little (Exe)
AV detection:
16 of 24 (66.67%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
snowlight
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:snowlight actor:unc5174 apt linux loader
Malware Config
C2 Extraction:
81.70.143.19
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:linux_generic_ipv6_catcher
Author:@_lubiedo
Description:ELF samples using IPv6 addresses
Rule name:Linux_Generic_Threat_3fa2df51
Author:Elastic Security
Rule name:malware_SNOWLIGHT_ELF
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:SNOWLIGHT
Reference:https://sect.iij.ad.jp/blog/2025/11/unc5174-windows-snowlight-in-2025/
Rule name:setsockopt
Author:Tim Brown @timb_machine
Description:Hunts for setsockopt() red flags
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

Snowlight

elf b116aefeb274d95fdd609567f73885e39621a2c72d9b10eb271c1f3a29389f08

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

Comments