Ke3chang
Also tracked as APT15, Mirage, Vixen Panda, GREF, Playful Dragon, RoyalAPT, NICKEL, Nylon Typhoon
Ke3chang is a threat group attributed to actors operating out of China. Ke3chang has targeted oil, government, diplomatic, military, and NGOs in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America since at least 2010.
- Documented techniques
- 46
- Assessed origin
- China
- First seen
- 2010
- 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 development3
initial access1
execution3
persistence3
credential access5
discovery12
- T1007 System Service Discovery
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1018 Remote System Discovery
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1049 System Network Connections Discovery
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1069.002 Domain Groups
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1087.001 Local Account
- T1087.002 Domain Account
- T1614.001 System Language Discovery
lateral movement1
collection7
command and control3
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.