- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(medium confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2020–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0143 · 35 techniques
- Sources
- 4 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0486 · aquatic-panda
ChinaWhat it is
Aquatic Panda is a suspected China-based threat group with a dual mission of intelligence collection and industrial espionage. Active since at least May 2020, Aquatic Panda has primarily targeted entities in the telecommunications, technology, and government sectors.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0143
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
Targets
- Sectors
- Government, Technology, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Cobalt Strike
- ShadowPad
- Wevtutil
- Winnti for Linux
- Winnti for Windows
- njRAT
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th