GINC-APT-0110 · State

APT21

Also NetTraveler, APT 21, Hammer Panda, NetTraveler, APT 21, Hammer Panda, TEMP.Zhenbao, TravNet and 1 other names.

Category
State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
Origin
China(high confidence)
Sponsor
China
Motivation
Espionage; Information theft and espionage
Seen
2004–2014
Status
Dormant
Sources
8 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0110 · apt21

What it is

APT21 is a threat actor tracked by MISP Galaxy. Additional information pending cataloguing.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

CrowdStrike
Hammer Panda, NetTraveler, APT 21, Hammer Panda
Mandiant
APT 21, TEMP.Zhenbao
Other names
NetTraveler, TravNet, Zhenbao

Attribution

Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.

Targets

Countries
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan
Sectors
Defense, Embassies, Government, Military, Oil and gas

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • NetTraveler
  • PlugX

Sources