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Putter Panda is a Chinese cyber-espionage threat actor associated with PLA Unit 61486, described as the Twelfth Bureau of the Central Military Commission Political Department. Also known as APT2 and MSUpdater, the group has conducted espionage operations against aerospace and defense-related organizations in the United States, Japan, and Europe to steal proprietary and strategic information. Its observed Windows tradecraft includes payload obfuscation using RC4 or XOR, process injection into network-connected and user-facing applications, Registry Run-key persistence, and attempts to terminate Sophos antivirus processes to impair endpoint defenses.
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13 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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Listed as a threat actor associated with the PowerShell P/Invoke process injection API chain detection and related ATT&CK techniques.
Referenced as a threat actor associated with disabling or modifying tools.
Referenced as a threat actor associated with the defense-impairment technique of modifying Windows Filtering Platform policy to block EDR process communication.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
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