Confucius
Also tracked as Confucius APT
Confucius is a cyber espionage group that has primarily targeted military personnel, high-profile personalities, business persons, and government organizations in South Asia since at least 2013. Security researchers have noted similarities between Confucius and Patchwork, particularly in their respective custom malware code and targets.
- Known attack methods
- 19
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2013
- 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.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques
Resource Development
9 techniques · 1 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques · 4 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 1 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 2 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques
Discovery
34 techniques · 2 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques
Collection
17 techniques · 1 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 2 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 2 used
Impact
15 techniques
Resource development1
Initial access2
Execution6
Persistence1
Collection1
Command and control2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.