Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-16 02:03

Sample ID 250222-dfy3daxjfr
Target 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf
SHA256 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2
Tags
prometei_elf botnet discovery miner persistence privilege_escalation upx
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

2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

prometei_elf botnet discovery miner persistence privilege_escalation upx

Prometei

Prometei_elf family

Deletes itself

Modifies hosts file

Enumerates running processes

Modifies systemd

Write file to user bin folder

UPX packed file

Reads CPU attributes

Reads runtime system information

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2025-02-22 02:57

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 02:57

Reported

2025-02-22 03:00

Platform

ubuntu1804-amd64-20240611-en

Max time kernel

6s

Max time network

128s

Command Line

[/tmp/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf]

Signatures

Prometei

botnet miner prometei_elf

Prometei_elf family

prometei_elf

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A /tmp/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf N/A

Modifies hosts file

Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /etc/hosts /tmp/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.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/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf N/A

Write file to user bin folder

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /usr/sbin/uplugplay /tmp/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.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/22/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1293/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/27/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/520/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1062/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1324/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1472/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/468/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1144/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/472/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1190/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1078/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1062/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1293/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/166/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1140/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/82/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1182/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1035/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1078/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/13/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/20/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/515/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1146/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/462/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/600/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1187/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1180/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1268/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/674/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/81/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1181/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/filesystems /bin/systemctl N/A
File opened for reading /proc/471/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1146/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/791/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/25/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1146/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/31/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/80/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1497/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/30/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/177/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/80/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1519/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1016/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/16/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/26/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/78/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1339/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/30/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1179/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/84/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/270/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/22/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/552/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1181/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/80/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/98/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/12/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/9/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/166/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1494/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1374/stat /bin/pidof N/A

Processes

/tmp/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf

[/tmp/2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.elf]

/bin/pidof

[pidof 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2.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
GB 185.125.188.62:443 tcp
GB 185.125.188.62:443 tcp
US 151.101.193.91:443 tcp
US 151.101.193.91:443 tcp
GB 195.181.164.14:443 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 p3.feefreepool.net udp
DE 88.198.246.242:80 p3.feefreepool.net tcp

Files

memory/1500-1-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000015640f8-memory.dmp

/usr/sbin/uplugplay

MD5 341fae12afe93cb3ab68c1547a6e0867
SHA1 abd1cecf404d7058e4d78feee3160aa139c67979
SHA256 2c3520c58059cc7fb6be314af424e9ca3771453db951944229feff9c0bbc26f2
SHA512 0e75ae611a83384574ba7228fe47b2ad97b57c5d5d9422716bb770ffc3ff394fdf95cf35ef7a3dae4104d1d6cc6b4be2a1b04bb8959624a5d4e4060499f9ca2e

/lib/systemd/system/uplugplay.service

MD5 8ca62d1f47880bce036c2956c9b7b272
SHA1 3bcc3a5c4fcc5b0d08c4524a59f6b8e113b62060
SHA256 c655d3d4e374fad38313ec4262207b2d7d68a870238f203ef3c33f85e66c8e32
SHA512 4cd2d9d67151fa25e833707dee2442c4a5f752053fc2c36ec73c0e2b734c66ca69c63fceb47714d9add5b9fe2eee1e45be5199e2cae7c26173e766b333877da6