Intrusion setG1034

Daggerfly

Also tracked as Evasive Panda, BRONZE HIGHLAND

Daggerfly is a People's Republic of China-linked APT entity active since at least 2012. Daggerfly has targeted individuals, government and NGO entities, and telecommunication companies in Asia and Africa. Daggerfly is associated with exclusive use of MgBot malware and is noted for several potential supply chain infection campaigns.

Documented techniques
17
Assessed origin
China
First seen
2012
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.

Malware

Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.

MacMaMgBotNightdoorPlugX

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.

BITSAdminReg
Source: MITRE ATT&CK View the original record · Last synchronised 2026-09-09 · Origin and motivation are read from MITRE’s own description and are not structured fields in ATT&CK. Where the text does not attribute a group, this page leaves them blank rather than guessing.