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Earth Kurma is an advanced persistent threat group conducting cyberespionage against government and government-related telecommunications organizations in Southeast Asia. Activity has been observed since at least November 2020, with a prominently documented campaign from June 2024. Confirmed targeting includes the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia. Its primary objective is collection and exfiltration of sensitive information. Earth Kurma employs custom loaders, credential-harvesting malware, Cobalt Strike, network-discovery utilities, remote-execution tooling, and kernel-mode rootkits including KRNRAT and MORIYA. It performs host and network reconnaissance, remote command execution, and lateral movement using WMI, administrative shares, and supporting tools. KMLOG captures keystrokes and credentials. Loaders execute follow-on payloads in memory, while the rootkits provide persistence, process manipulation, traffic concealment, shellcode execution, and evasion of endpoint defenses. The group collects common office documents, compresses and password-protects them, and stages them through Active Directory Distributed File System Replication to support access from domain controllers. It uses bespoke uploaders to exfiltrate archives through legitimate cloud-storage services, including Dropbox and OneDrive. Earth Kurma has tooling and code overlaps with ToddyCat and Operation TunnelSnake, but available evidence does not support conclusive attribution to either group.
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Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
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19 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
17 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
12 additional families tracked in Mallory.
11 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
11 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
APT targeting government and telecommunications in Southeast Asia; compromises vulnerable web servers, performs recon and lateral movement, maintains persistence with rootkits/backdoors/loaders, and exfiltrates data via PowerShell and legitimate cloud/collaboration services (OneDrive, Dropbox, Cisco Webex).
New APT targeting government and telecom sectors in Southeast Asia using custom malware, rootkits, and cloud services for exfiltration.
Referenced in wider ASN sightings only; not connected directly to the investigated intrusion.
Earth Kurma is conducting cyberespionage campaigns targeting government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia, using custom malware, rootkits, and public cloud services for data exfiltration.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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