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Earth Baxia is a China-linked threat actor, described in the content as likely or suspected to originate from China and as one of several APT groups working on behalf of the People's Republic of China. The group is also tracked as APT41, Wicked Panda, and Grass Typhoon. Reported targeting includes government organizations in Taiwan and other Asia-Pacific countries, as well as telecommunications and energy entities in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand. Additional mentions state that APT groups such as Earth Baxia have targeted the Philippine military, Japanese military, Taiwanese government agencies, and a U.S. federal agency. Observed initial access and delivery methods include spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments or links and exploitation of the GeoServer remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-36401. Reported tradecraft includes use of decoy documents, GrimResource to download files from public cloud services, DLL side-loading, AppDomainManager injection, and process injection. Earth Baxia deployed customized Cobalt Strike payloads with altered signatures for evasion and used a backdoor named EAGLEDOOR. EAGLEDOOR supports DNS, HTTP, TCP, and Telegram-based command and control, payload delivery, information gathering, and data exfiltration. Public cloud services including AWS and Aliyun were used to host malicious files, and curl.exe was used for exfiltration in at least one reported campaign. Malware and tooling associated with Earth Baxia in the content include EAGLEDOOR, customized Cobalt Strike, DULLDOWN, RIPCOY, and recent SWORDLDR samples. SWORDLDR is also identified in reporting on Charon ransomware intrusions. Charon has been associated with Earth Baxia and observed in targeted attacks against public sector organizations and Middle Eastern aviation targets, using DLL sideloading, shellcode staging, and process hollowing; however, the content also states attribution of the Charon operation to Earth Baxia was not definitive and based on technical overlaps. The content also notes low-confidence ties between Earth Baxia and the SHADOW-EARTH-045 PeckBirdy activity based on infrastructure overlap, including use of IP address 47.238.184.9. Those links are explicitly described as weak or low confidence.
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Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
28 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
5 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
2 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 2 of them exploited in the wild.
Delivered scripts observed include CVE-2020-16040 exploitation for Chrome, social engineering pop-ups, Electron JS backdoor delivery, and TCP reverse shell establishment.
Earth Baxia, a threat actor suspected to originate from China, has been targeting government organizations in Taiwan and other Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries, using spear-phishing emails and exploiting a vulnerability in GeoServer (CVE-2024-36401), a remote code execution (RCE) exploit. This exploit allowed the attackers to download or copy malicious components, which were then used to deploy customized Cobalt Strike payloads.
16 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
16 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
China-aligned activity cluster referenced as overlapping with campaigns using the PeckBirdy JScript-based C2 framework; described in the context of Asia-focused intrusions (financially motivated web injection and espionage-oriented targeting).
Potentially linked (low confidence) to SHADOW-EARTH-045 activity involving credential-harvesting via injected login pages and delivery/execution of PeckBirdy.
Possible (weakly evidenced) linkage to infrastructure used in the Shadow-Earth-045 campaign targeting Asian government entities via web injection and PeckBirdy delivery for credential harvesting and remote access.
China-aligned actor referenced via infrastructure overlap: an IP used in SHADOW-EARTH-045 was previously linked to Earth Baxia.
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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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