Intrusion setG0006
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.
- Documented techniques
- 23
- Assessed origin
- China
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
resource development5
execution1
credential access1
discovery6
lateral movement2
collection5
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