Coinminer.SH.MALXMR.UWEJK

 Analysis by: Arianne Grace Dela Cruz

 ALIASES:

HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Miner.a (KASPERSKY); Trojan.Linux.Coinminer (IKARUS)

 PLATFORM:

Linux

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Coinminer

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This Coinminer arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size:

5,427 bytes

File Type:

Other

Initial Samples Received Date:

22 Jul 2019

Arrival Details

This Coinminer arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Installation

This Coinminer drops the following files:

  • /tmp/config.json
  • /tmp/bashf
  • /dev/null
  • /tmp/pools.txt
  • /tmp/bashg
  • /dev/null
  • config.txt
  • cpu.txt
  • /tmp/lst
  • /tmp/dlcfg
  • /tmp/fake.cfg
  • /tmp/XbashH
  • /dev/null
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/Crypto.Cipher._DES.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_cffi_backend.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_codecs_cn.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_codecs_hk.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_codecs_iso2022.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_codecs_jp.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_codecs_kr.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_codecs_tw.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_ctypes.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_hashlib.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_json.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_multibytecodec.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/_ssl.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/bz2.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libbz2.so.1.0
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libcrypto.so.1.1
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libexpat.so.1
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libffi.so.6
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libpython2.7.so.1.0
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libreadline.so.7
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libssl.so.1.1
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libtinfo.so.5
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/libz.so.1
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/pyexpat.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/readline.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/resource.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/termios.so
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/certifi/cacert.pem
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography-2.1.4-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography-2.1.4-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography-2.1.4-py2.7.egg-info/not-zip-safe
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography-2.1.4-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/cryptography-2.1.4-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/Makefile
  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/requests/cacert.pem
  • /dev/null
  • /tmp/JpSHn6
  • /tmp/tmpwefNo4
  • /dev/null
  • /tmp/ccwwXXIH.res
  • /tmp/cc1TzruS.c
  • /tmp/ccWiVmP2.o
  • /tmp/cc1KJjad.ld
  • /tmp/ccavbivn.le
  • /tmp/cc1KJjad.ld
  • /tmp/ccavbivn.le
  • /tmp/tmpwefNo4

It creates the following folders:

  • /tmp/_MEI8Nb1Xm/

Other Details

This Coinminer connects to the following possibly malicious URL:

  • {BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}.177.144
  • {BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}.46.39
  • {BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}.201.153

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine:

9.850

FIRST VSAPI PATTERN FILE:

15.250.02

FIRST VSAPI PATTERN DATE:

22 Jul 2019

VSAPI OPR PATTERN File:

15.251.00

VSAPI OPR PATTERN Date:

23 Jul 2019

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