MMD-0056-2016 - Linux/Mirai, how an old ELF malcode is recycled

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MMD-0056-2016 - Linux/Mirai, how an old ELF malcode is recycled
Botnet	Mirai
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target	IoT, Linux
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2016 / 2016-08-31
Editor/Conference	Malware Must Die
Link	http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2016/08/mmd-0056-2016-linuxmirai-just.html (Archive copy)
Author	unixfreaxjp
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ From August 4th 2016 several sysadmin friends were helping us by uploading this malware files to our dropbox. The samples of this particular ELF malware ware not easy to retrieve, there are good ones and also some broken ones, I listed in this post for the good ones only. This threat is made by a new ELF trojan backdoor which is now in on-going stage aiming IoT, the name of the binary is "mirai.*" and is having telnet attack as main functionality to other boxes.

Bibtex

 @misc{unixfreaxjp2016BFR4950,
   editor = {Malware Must Die},
   author = {unixfreaxjp},
   title = {MMD-0056-2016 - Linux/Mirai, how an old ELF malcode is recycled},
   date = {31},
   month = Aug,
   year = {2016},
   howpublished = {\url{http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2016/08/mmd-0056-2016-linuxmirai-just.html}},
 }