Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-16 02:03

Sample ID 250221-qgqtlssket
Target na.elf
SHA256 9f5458eef617aa4eb1864b3e2aaf2f024347b7d49ea03b06ba1ca983463e6fdd
Tags
upx prometei_elf botnet discovery miner persistence privilege_escalation
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V15

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

9f5458eef617aa4eb1864b3e2aaf2f024347b7d49ea03b06ba1ca983463e6fdd

Threat Level: Known bad

The file na.elf was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

upx prometei_elf botnet discovery miner persistence privilege_escalation

Prometei

Prometei_elf family

Deletes itself

Modifies hosts file

Write file to user bin folder

Enumerates running processes

Modifies systemd

UPX packed file

Reads CPU attributes

Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration

Reads runtime system information

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2025-02-21 13:14

Signatures

UPX packed file

upx
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2025-02-21 13:14

Reported

2025-02-21 13:16

Platform

ubuntu2404-amd64-20240523-en

Max time kernel

6s

Max time network

129s

Command Line

[/tmp/na.elf]

Signatures

Prometei

botnet miner prometei_elf

Prometei_elf family

prometei_elf

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A /tmp/na.elf N/A

Modifies hosts file

Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /etc/hosts /tmp/na.elf N/A

Enumerates running processes

Modifies systemd

persistence privilege_escalation
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /lib/systemd/system/uplugplay.service /tmp/na.elf N/A

Write file to user bin folder

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /usr/sbin/uplugplay /tmp/na.elf N/A

UPX packed file

upx
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Reads CPU attributes

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible /usr/bin/pgrep N/A

Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/node /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/node /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/node /usr/bin/pgrep N/A

Reads runtime system information

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for reading /proc/790/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/824/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1954/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/35/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2185/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/70/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1695/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1954/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/22/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/592/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1125/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/24/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1906/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2250/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1954/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/35/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/filesystems /usr/bin/systemctl N/A
File opened for reading /proc/4/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1122/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/38/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/10/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/46/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/785/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/3/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/17/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/33/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/48/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/772/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1798/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/10/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/789/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2156/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1939/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/764/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1690/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/47/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1124/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1074/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/790/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/45/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1999/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2480/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/54/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2477/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1124/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2488/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/41/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1069/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2012/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1053/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1897/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1960/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2418/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/194/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/129/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/33/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1124/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1951/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/25/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/418/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1959/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1940/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/592/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/790/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A

Processes

/tmp/na.elf

[/tmp/na.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep na.elf]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep na.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep uplugplay]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep uplugplay]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof uplugplay]

/usr/bin/pidof

[pidof uplugplay]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep upnpsetup]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep upnpsetup]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof upnpsetup]

/usr/bin/pidof

[pidof upnpsetup]

/bin/sh

[sh -c systemctl daemon-reload]

/usr/bin/systemctl

[systemctl daemon-reload]

/bin/sh

[sh -c systemctl enable uplugplay.service]

/usr/bin/systemctl

[systemctl enable uplugplay.service]

/bin/sh

[sh -c systemctl start uplugplay.service]

/usr/bin/systemctl

[systemctl start uplugplay.service]

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
N/A 224.0.0.251:5353 udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 p3.feefreepool.net udp
DE 88.198.246.242:80 p3.feefreepool.net tcp

Files

memory/2480-1-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000015640f8-memory.dmp

/usr/sbin/uplugplay

MD5 9365f9d52de3ab2bad8528e3595413cd
SHA1 3d013b3f7b41f4c988243cd070b7bfeb3ea14fee
SHA256 9f5458eef617aa4eb1864b3e2aaf2f024347b7d49ea03b06ba1ca983463e6fdd
SHA512 366561cc4ec9197f9dae3527093471459969895091c9661764317fa5993ed41865e301fc9defec766d9a37799eb7a841fb46fc0a83bd9ec6e6d44a7bd68433e4

/usr/lib/systemd/system/uplugplay.service

MD5 8ca62d1f47880bce036c2956c9b7b272
SHA1 3bcc3a5c4fcc5b0d08c4524a59f6b8e113b62060
SHA256 c655d3d4e374fad38313ec4262207b2d7d68a870238f203ef3c33f85e66c8e32
SHA512 4cd2d9d67151fa25e833707dee2442c4a5f752053fc2c36ec73c0e2b734c66ca69c63fceb47714d9add5b9fe2eee1e45be5199e2cae7c26173e766b333877da6