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UAT-10147 is a Chinese-speaking, financially motivated cybercrime intrusion actor active since at least early 2026. It targets vulnerable internet-facing Windows IIS and Linux web servers globally, affecting government, education, media, technology, and gaming organizations. The actor exploits publicly disclosed remote-code-execution vulnerabilities for initial access, conducts large-scale reconnaissance and scanning, and has maintained target lists containing approximately 170,000 web addresses. UAT-10147 combines server compromise with SEO fraud and data theft. Its toolkit includes BadIIS, QuasarRAT, Gh0stCringe, Noodle RAT, Meterpreter, web shells, Potato-family local privilege-escalation tools, and the custom cross-platform SPECTRE backdoor. On Windows, SPECTRE supports command execution, reconnaissance, screenshots, keylogging, credential collection, registry-hive dumping, browser credential theft, process hollowing, APC EarlyBird injection, and named-pipe impersonation for SYSTEM-level access. It incorporates anti-analysis controls and can use bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver techniques to impair endpoint-security telemetry. On Linux, SPECTRE can deploy the Specter kernel rootkit, which provides boot persistence, kernel-level process and module hiding, and privilege escalation. UAT-10147 also establishes persistence through web shells, scheduled tasks, malicious local accounts, and endpoint-security exclusions. The actor has used AI-assisted and agentic tooling, including DeepAudit and PentestGPT, to support reconnaissance, exploit validation, troubleshooting, payload deployment, post-exploitation automation, and operational documentation. Available evidence identifies it as a cybercriminal actor rather than a state-sponsored group.
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56 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
14 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
9 additional families tracked in Mallory.
13 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 13 of them exploited in the wild.
SPECTRE can retrieve the vulnerable MSI RTCore64.sys driver associated with CVE-2019-16098, install it as a temporary kernel service, and abuse its kernel read/write capabilities to unlink registered EDR callbacks.
SPECTRE can retrieve Dell's DBUtil_2_3.sys driver associated with CVE-2021-21551, install it as a temporary kernel service, and abuse its kernel read/write capabilities to unlink registered EDR callbacks.
The Linux attacks, like in the case, leverage various known vulnerabilities to obtain an initial foothold, followed by abusing various known Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) exploits to escalate to root, including CVE-2022-0995, CVE-2021-3156, CVE-2015-5287, CVE-2015-3246, CVE-2010-3904, and CVE-2022-0847.
The Linux attacks, like in the case, leverage various known vulnerabilities to obtain an initial foothold, followed by abusing various known Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) exploits to escalate to root, including CVE-2022-0995, CVE-2021-3156, CVE-2015-5287, CVE-2015-3246, CVE-2010-3904, and CVE-2022-0847.
The Linux attacks, like in the case, leverage various known vulnerabilities to obtain an initial foothold, followed by abusing various known Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) exploits to escalate to root, including CVE-2022-0995, CVE-2021-3156, CVE-2015-5287, CVE-2015-3246, CVE-2010-3904, and CVE-2022-0847.
8 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
68 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
10 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A financially motivated, Chinese-speaking cybercrime group conducting large-scale exploitation of publicly disclosed RCE vulnerabilities against internet-facing Windows and Linux servers. It conducts SEO fraud and data theft, and uses AI-assisted reconnaissance, exploit refinement and validation, post-exploitation automation, and operational documentation. The group deploys custom SPECTRE backdoors and the Specter Linux rootkit alongside commodity and open-source tools to steal credentials, establish persistence, escalate privileges, evade defenses, and install web shells.
Chinese cybercrime group targeting Windows and Linux web servers worldwide in education, media, technology, and gaming.
Financially motivated intrusion group using agentic AI to target vulnerable web servers, conduct SEO fraud and data theft, and automate exploit refinement, troubleshooting, post-exploitation, and malware development.
Targets IIS and Linux servers using a sophisticated post-exploitation toolkit featuring the SPECTRE implant, Linux rootkits, in-memory web shells, credential theft, anti-analysis, SEO fraud, and BYOVD-based EDR bypass.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
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CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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