Malware Analysis Report

2025-06-16 02:03

Sample ID 250222-fek58sxras
Target 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf
SHA256 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7
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

95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.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

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 04:47

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 04:47

Reported

2025-02-22 04:49

Platform

ubuntu1804-amd64-20240611-en

Max time kernel

7s

Max time network

131s

Command Line

[/tmp/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf]

Signatures

Prometei

botnet miner prometei_elf

Prometei_elf family

prometei_elf

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A /tmp/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf N/A

Modifies hosts file

Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /etc/hosts /tmp/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.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/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf N/A

Write file to user bin folder

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
File opened for modification /usr/sbin/uplugplay /tmp/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.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/969/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/242/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1163/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/608/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/30/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/641/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1043/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/644/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1131/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/644/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/35/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1167/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/322/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1329/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/130/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/633/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/586/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/644/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/969/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/170/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1135/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/79/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/29/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/27/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/908/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/680/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1253/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/167/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1479/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/11/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/179/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/179/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/586/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1253/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/83/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/81/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1329/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/477/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/31/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1163/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/17/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/477/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/35/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/15/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/36/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/22/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/168/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/173/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/130/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/29/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/169/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/966/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/178/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1062/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/85/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/641/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/1190/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/488/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/715/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/488/stat /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/499/cmdline /bin/pidof N/A
File opened for reading /proc/175/cmdline /usr/bin/pgrep N/A
File opened for reading /proc/562/status /usr/bin/pgrep N/A

Processes

/tmp/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf

[/tmp/95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pgrep 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf]

/usr/bin/pgrep

[pgrep 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf]

/bin/sh

[sh -c pidof 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.elf]

/bin/pidof

[pidof 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7.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 89.187.167.6:443 tcp
GB 185.125.188.61:443 tcp
GB 185.125.188.61:443 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 p3.feefreepool.net udp
DE 88.198.246.242:80 p3.feefreepool.net tcp

Files

memory/1495-1-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000015640f8-memory.dmp

/usr/sbin/uplugplay

MD5 ad0ae4ad56e9a191d2806635434d5576
SHA1 20daf65cb0fb3b9283da0e50f4dac60809591c53
SHA256 95581629b9e4d867aed47449e8a1d2069f17b7d5e2e916d5460fb660e69900f7
SHA512 64416371f15ada978f868285bafa2abe9ca27194fda181023c26c7c913deb45ed2e3e1a0f3128182878ef06b2c50e9b2191d1704caaa541d7ff32bd0be2ac6f2

/lib/systemd/system/uplugplay.service

MD5 8ca62d1f47880bce036c2956c9b7b272
SHA1 3bcc3a5c4fcc5b0d08c4524a59f6b8e113b62060
SHA256 c655d3d4e374fad38313ec4262207b2d7d68a870238f203ef3c33f85e66c8e32
SHA512 4cd2d9d67151fa25e833707dee2442c4a5f752053fc2c36ec73c0e2b734c66ca69c63fceb47714d9add5b9fe2eee1e45be5199e2cae7c26173e766b333877da6