Intrusion setG0143
Aquatic Panda
Aquatic Panda is a suspected China-based threat group with a dual mission of intelligence collection and industrial espionage. Active since at least May 2020, Aquatic Panda has primarily targeted entities in the telecommunications, technology, and government sectors.
- Documented techniques
- 35
- Assessed origin
- China
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- 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.
reconnaissance1
resource development2
execution4
persistence1
credential access1
discovery6
lateral movement5
command and control1
defense impairment3
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
Cobalt StrikeShadowPadWinnti for LinuxWinnti for WindowsnjRAT
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.
Wevtutil