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Earth Lusca is a China-nexus cyber-espionage threat actor active since at least April 2019. It is also tracked as Aquatic Panda, Charcoal Typhoon, TAG-22, and RedHotel. The group primarily targets government, telecommunications, and technology organizations across Asia, including activity associated with targeting Nepal, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Earth Lusca has used Cobalt Strike, ShadowPad, Winnti, Spyder, and other acquired malware. It has deployed the multiplatform Golang backdoor KTLVdoor against Windows and Linux systems. KTLVdoor supports command execution, file operations, and remote port scanning, while using obfuscated and encrypted configuration and command-and-control communications, reflective code loading, and masquerading as legitimate utilities to hinder detection. Earth Lusca has also used malicious shortcut files to execute HTA content through mshta.exe and conducted user-account discovery with whoami.
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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.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
60 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
36 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
31 additional families tracked in Mallory.
27 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 27 of them exploited in the wild.
ESET researchers also noted indications that some attacks may involve a UEFI bootkit component, possibly exploiting CVE-2023-24932, which could allow the malware to survive a complete operating system reinstall.
Infection sequences start with the exploitation of known security flaws in public-facing ... Microsoft Exchange Server (ProxyShell) ... servers to drop web shells and deliver Cobalt Strike for lateral movement.
Earth Lusca has used Mimikatz to exploit a domain controller via the ZeroLogon exploit (CVE-2020-1472).
A Chinese advanced persistent threat tracked as Deep Panda has been observed exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor and a novel rootkit on infected machines with the goal of stealing sensitive data. The latest set of attacks documented by Fortinet shows that the infection procedure involved the exploitation of the Log4j remote code execution flaw (aka Log4Shell) in vulnerable VMware Horizon servers.
Details on Exploited Vulnerabilities ... CVE-2016-5195 Linux kernel 7.0
22 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
116 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.
Used commercial AI services for reconnaissance, code debugging, script generation, and likely phishing-content development.
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Earth Lusca is listed in the detection's threat-actor annotations.
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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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