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LadonGo is an open-source scanning framework created by Chinese-speaking developers. In the provided reporting, it was used as a reconnaissance utility to scan for live hosts and open ports. Unit 42 observed its use in a cyberespionage campaign targeting a Southeast Asian government and related entities including critical infrastructure, public healthcare institutions, public financial administrators, and ministries. The activity was associated with intrusion cluster CL-STA-0044, which Unit 42 attributed with moderate-high confidence to Stately Taurus (Mustang Panda). In that campaign, LadonGo was used alongside other tooling including ToneShell, ShadowPad, Impacket, and China Chopper as part of long-term intelligence-gathering and persistent access operations. High-confidence behavior directly mentioned for LadonGo in the content is network reconnaissance and host/port scanning; no malware-specific persistence, payload delivery, or exfiltration capability is described in the provided material.
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15 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
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Post-exploitation/hacking tool used alongside backdoors during the intrusion set described.
LadonGo is an open-source network scanning and reconnaissance tool used to identify live hosts and open ports in target environments.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.