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Database Entry

Kinsing

Vendor detections: 8

Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	fa8a54ad772c873ebcf76991dde17a82f15dae0f3b65ab08076d254905244c2d
SHA3-384 hash:	40f2813bb2142215d3b1a1b582182b7d7968d8816cce2bdfb98a31cec40d0e812e8ee69e3a322a9055b1c977b6a8a2d9
SHA1 hash:	31da19ae7bfab68f69a72eac6d18b5a8ca583abd
MD5 hash:	5a4c155bc245e1cf17fc0451415d4471
humanhash:	johnny-lemon-virginia-fish
File name:	ki.sh
Download:	download sample
Signature	Kinsing Create hunting rule
File size:	16'003 bytes
First seen:	2025-05-09 12:19:08 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	sh
MIME type:	text/x-shellscript
ssdeep	384:r5JLwlH2wx2vUaQa5/eN86704s80ooJQYgykWT4yCtvUsDjdWOoJwGm:t17YJDj8OoJwGm
TLSH	T18F722F8EB011ED742A6DC4B5DCE2287D602BA0098D623F40B4546E78679DA05A7B9BFC
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:

96.5%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=681df39c4a59e5a2ce0342e7linux22vpnfull_triage

Tags:

virus

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

10/10

Confidence:

100%

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/681df2e00b64e174c41f9f7a/reports/114410d5-0011-4905-b5d4-0bd379242853/overview

Score:

62%

Verdict:

Susipicious

File Type:

SCRIPT

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/fa8a54ad772c873ebcf76991dde17a82f15dae0f3b65ab08076d254905244c2d

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/fa8a54ad772c873ebcf76991dde17a82f15dae0f3b65ab08076d254905244c2d/

Threat name:

Linux.Exploit.CVE-2020-7961

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2025-05-09 12:20:37 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=7kffjllxfsdt5phxngi53yl2qlyv3lqphns2wcahnususbjejqwq._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-phdd8svpw6/

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/fa8a54ad772c/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/fa8a54ad772c873ebcf76991dde17a82f15dae0f3b65ab08076d254905244c2d

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/