Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-16 02:03

Sample ID 250222-cvpa2swnhq
Target 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf
SHA256 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73
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

078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

upx prometei_elf botnet discovery miner persistence privilege_escalation

Prometei_elf family

Prometei

Modifies hosts file

Deletes itself

Enumerates running processes

Write file to user bin folder

Modifies systemd

UPX packed file

Reads CPU attributes

Reads runtime system information

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2025-02-22 02:24

Signatures

UPX packed file

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

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2025-02-22 02:24

Reported

2025-02-22 02:26

Platform

ubuntu1804-amd64-20240611-en

Max time kernel

6s

Max time network

128s

Command Line

[/tmp/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf]

Signatures

Prometei

botnet miner prometei_elf

Prometei_elf family

prometei_elf

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A /tmp/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf N/A

Modifies hosts file

Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /etc/hosts /tmp/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.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/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf N/A

Write file to user bin folder

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /usr/sbin/uplugplay /tmp/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.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/online /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/cpu/online /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /sys/devices/system/cpu/online /usr/bin/pgrep N/A

Reads runtime system information

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for reading /proc/529/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1103/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/552/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1073/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/filesystems /bin/systemctl N/A
File opened for reading /proc/179/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/4/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/13/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/82/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/176/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1036/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1266/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1299/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/540/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/30/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1/sched /bin/systemctl N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/12/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/321/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/80/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/13/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1202/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/181/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/17/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/171/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1306/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/84/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/172/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/9/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/711/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1503/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/16/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/468/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/171/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1507/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/8/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/21/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/172/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/6/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/176/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1333/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/22/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1202/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/711/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1123/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/962/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1529/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/28/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/166/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/970/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/16/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/487/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1042/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/12/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/462/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/540/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/529/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/29/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1075/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/414/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/428/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1507/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1194/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/115/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A

Processes

/tmp/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf

[/tmp/078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf]

/bin/pidof

[pidof 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep uplugplay]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep uplugplay]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof uplugplay]

/bin/pidof

[pidof uplugplay]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep upnpsetup]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep upnpsetup]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof upnpsetup]

/bin/pidof

[pidof upnpsetup]

/bin/sh

[sh -c systemctl daemon-reload]

/bin/systemctl

[systemctl daemon-reload]

/bin/sh

[sh -c systemctl enable uplugplay.service]

/bin/systemctl

[systemctl enable uplugplay.service]

/bin/sh

[sh -c systemctl start uplugplay.service]

/bin/systemctl

[systemctl start uplugplay.service]

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
N/A 224.0.0.251:5353 udp
US 151.101.193.91:443 tcp
GB 195.181.164.14:443 tcp
GB 185.125.188.62:443 tcp
GB 185.125.188.62:443 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 p3.feefreepool.net udp
DE 88.198.246.242:80 p3.feefreepool.net tcp

Files

memory/1507-1-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000015640f8-memory.dmp

/usr/sbin/uplugplay

MD5 b1a38abe3d183881e49bc06a285851ca
SHA1 5ea0113f5695d22681c655d4fa0971819a373476
SHA256 078f0221efc090f62048cdae8b4000bbd3898fbeff37784494a2773c5f2cda73
SHA512 7c34f4e613eaeb5e4dd4017533ca96ef8045f75fc6d3426f0436cea1564eb639e5bde43923e5eabd73ccb909009975868d4ab2206121c5530194086644bf355d

/lib/systemd/system/uplugplay.service

MD5 8ca62d1f47880bce036c2956c9b7b272
SHA1 3bcc3a5c4fcc5b0d08c4524a59f6b8e113b62060
SHA256 c655d3d4e374fad38313ec4262207b2d7d68a870238f203ef3c33f85e66c8e32
SHA512 4cd2d9d67151fa25e833707dee2442c4a5f752053fc2c36ec73c0e2b734c66ca69c63fceb47714d9add5b9fe2eee1e45be5199e2cae7c26173e766b333877da6