- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sponsor
- China
- Motivation
- Espionage; Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2015–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0023 · 1 techniques
- Sources
- 10 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0056 · apt16
ChinaWhat it is
APT16 is a China-based threat group that has launched spearphishing campaigns targeting Japanese and Taiwanese organizations.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Mandiant
- APT 16
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0023
- Other names
- APT 16, SVCMONDR, SVCMONDR
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
- ETDA / ThaiCERTChina
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)China
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Targets
- Countries
- Japan, Taiwan, Thailand
- Sectors
- Financial, Government, High-Tech, Media, Private sector
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- CVE-2015-2545
- China Chopper
- ELMER
- ELMER backdoor
- Gh0st
- HTRAN
- IRONHALO
- Pandora
- Poison Ivy
- SVCMONDR
- UNICAT
- Windows Remote Desktop
- Xploit
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de