Hacker groupG1006
Earth Lusca
Also tracked as TAG-22, Charcoal Typhoon, CHROMIUM, ControlX
Earth Lusca is a suspected China-based cyber espionage group that has been active since at least April 2019. Earth Lusca has targeted organizations in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Germany, France, and the United States. Targets included government institutions, news media outlets, gambling companies, educational institutions, COVID-19 research organizations, telecommunications companies, religious movements banned in China, and cryptocurrency trading platforms; security researchers assess some Earth Lusca operations may be financially motivated. Earth Lusca has used malware commonly used by other Chinese threat groups, including APT41 and the Winnti Group cluster, however security researchers assess Earth Lusca's techniques and infrastructure are separate.
- Known attack methods
- 44
- Origin
- China
- Motive
- Espionage, Financial gain
- 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 · 1 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 4 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 3 used
Execution
20 techniques · 4 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 3 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 1 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 5 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 1 used
Credential Access
17 techniques · 1 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 7 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 1 used
Collection
17 techniques · 1 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 1 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 1 used
Impact
15 techniques
Reconnaissance1
Resource development8
Initial access3
Execution8
Privilege escalation1
Stealth6
Defense impairment1
Credential access2
Discovery7
Lateral movement1
Collection1
Command and control1
Exfiltration1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
Cobalt StrikeShadowPadWinnti for Linux
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.
MimikatzNBTscanNltestPowerSploitTasklistcertutil