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APT3 is a China-linked, government-affiliated cyberespionage group also known as Pirpi, Buckeye, Gothic Panda, UPS Team, UPS, Boron, Brocade Typhoon, Cybran, Oldcarp, Red Sylvan, TG-0110, and Threat Group-0110. Its targeting includes the United States, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Japan, and additional locations in Europe and Asia. The group uses spearphishing emails containing malicious links and has deployed zero-day exploits against Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Adobe Flash Player. Its operations incorporate custom implants, changing command-and-control infrastructure, RC4 encryption, and return-oriented programming chains to bypass ASLR and DEP. An associated downloader establishes SOCKS5 connections for initial command-and-control communications. APT3 maintains access through scripts placed in Windows Startup folders, scheduled tasks running at user logon under the SYSTEM account, newly created Windows services, and enabled Remote Desktop Protocol access. It creates or enables local accounts and adds created accounts to local administrator groups to preserve elevated access. Its credential-dumping tooling uses process injection into the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service. Post-compromise activity includes identifying the current user, discovering remote systems, executing commands on remote computers, and browsing and copying files through remote desktop sessions. The group obfuscates files and information to evade defenses and compresses collected data before exfiltration.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
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Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
51 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.
4 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 4 of them exploited in the wild.
the most recent original zero-day released by this group is tracked by CVE-2015-3113, which has similarities to the once zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2014-1776 and CVE-2014-6332 exploited by UPS in May and November 2014, respectively.
Unit 42 recently analyzed malicious Flash files that exploited CVE-2015-3113, which was a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash that was patched on June 23, 2015.
This detection identifies instances where Windows Explorer.exe spawns PowerShell or cmd.exe processes, particularly focusing on executions initiated by LNK files. This behavior is associated with the ZDI-CAN-25373 Windows shortcut zero-day vulnerability, where specially crafted LNK files are used to trigger malicious code execution through cmd.exe or powershell.exe. This technique has been actively exploited by multiple APT groups in targeted attacks through both HTTP and SMB delivery methods.
the most recent original zero-day released by this group is tracked by CVE-2015-3113, which has similarities to the once zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2014-1776 and CVE-2014-6332 exploited by UPS in May and November 2014, respectively.
91 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Listed only in technique annotations. The content does not attribute ResetNightmare exploitation or a specific campaign to this group.
Referenced only as an annotated actor associated with the detection technique.
Listed in the detection annotation metadata.
Referenced solely as an ATT&CK-associated group for Windows built-in account renaming/local-account abuse; no campaign or activity is described.
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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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