Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-16 02:03

Sample ID 250222-d9dzasxphp
Target na.elf
SHA256 0dd11c8538d33570521bea3b7f7f331874ff5ac9578d0abee05fcc8d5fe5b1bb
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

0dd11c8538d33570521bea3b7f7f331874ff5ac9578d0abee05fcc8d5fe5b1bb

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_elf family

Prometei

Deletes itself

Modifies hosts file

Enumerates running processes

Modifies systemd

Write file to user bin folder

UPX packed file

Reads CPU attributes

Enumerates kernel/hardware configuration

Reads runtime system information

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2025-02-22 03:42

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 03:42

Reported

2025-02-22 03:44

Platform

ubuntu2404-amd64-20240523-en

Max time kernel

6s

Max time network

128s

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/1390/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/202/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/51/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/235/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/7/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/195/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2237/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2015/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1732/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1987/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/14/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/16/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/80/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1128/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/35/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/42/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/33/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/40/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1854/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/815/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2021/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/22/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/358/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2206/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/46/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/69/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2003/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2533/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2018/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/17/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/38/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/44/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/258/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/71/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/51/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/733/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2166/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/189/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1850/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2541/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/787/cmdline /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/49/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/193/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2277/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/438/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/38/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/50/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2060/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1390/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/892/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2328/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2538/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1077/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2017/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/4/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/10/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1715/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/196/cgroup /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1978/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/2533/stat /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/47/stat /usr/bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/36/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/196/ctty /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/200/stat /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/2533-1-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000015640f8-memory.dmp

/usr/sbin/uplugplay

MD5 d7ccf7e56b090b038bb11fb75937eed0
SHA1 e5a3a40a76e44e25db63d8ba6ae7d1cde30d4e4f
SHA256 0dd11c8538d33570521bea3b7f7f331874ff5ac9578d0abee05fcc8d5fe5b1bb
SHA512 7126ed9c9d25b43ef953de6f0598929c0e4719eaebf9f01ab48f94422fc0a5b8292a2b886137e34861aa6abe87eae1ba58e7cc5a317009159eb23aae9e38824e

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

MD5 8ca62d1f47880bce036c2956c9b7b272
SHA1 3bcc3a5c4fcc5b0d08c4524a59f6b8e113b62060
SHA256 c655d3d4e374fad38313ec4262207b2d7d68a870238f203ef3c33f85e66c8e32
SHA512 4cd2d9d67151fa25e833707dee2442c4a5f752053fc2c36ec73c0e2b734c66ca69c63fceb47714d9add5b9fe2eee1e45be5199e2cae7c26173e766b333877da6