- 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.
Western sources
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
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de