APT3
Also tracked as Gothic Panda, Pirpi, UPS Team, Buckeye, Threat Group-0110, TG-0110
APT3 is a China-based threat group that researchers have attributed to China's Ministry of State Security. This group is responsible for the campaigns known as Operation Clandestine Fox, Operation Clandestine Wolf, and Operation Double Tap. As of June 2015, the group appears to have shifted from targeting primarily US victims to primarily political organizations in Hong Kong.
- Documented techniques
- 44
- 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.
initial access1
execution5
persistence4
privilege escalation1
credential access4
discovery9
lateral movement2
collection4
command and control4
exfiltration1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
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.