Hacker groupG0006
APT1
Also tracked as Comment Crew, Comment Group, Comment Panda
APT1 is a Chinese threat group that has been attributed to the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s (GSD) 3rd Department, commonly known by its Military Unit Cover Designator (MUCD) as Unit 61398.
- Known attack methods
- 23
- Origin
- China
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Used by this groupNot documented for this groupIn brackets: sub-techniques this group uses, of those that exist.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques
Resource Development
9 techniques · 4 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques · 1 used
Persistence
22 techniques
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 1 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques · 1 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 6 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 2 used
Collection
17 techniques · 4 used
Command and Control
18 techniques
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques
Resource development5
Initial access2
Execution1
Credential access1
Discovery6
Lateral movement2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
BISCUITCALENDARGLOOXMAILPoisonIvySeasaltWEBC2
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.
CachedumpLslsassMimikatzNetPass-The-Hash ToolkitPsExecTasklistgsecdumpipconfigpwdumpxCmd