- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2015
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0173 · avivore
ChinaWhat it is
The group’s existence came to light during Context’s investigation of a number of attacks against multinational enterprises that compromise smaller engineering services and consultancies working in their supply chains.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- AVIVORE
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
- United Kingdom
- Sectors
- Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Satellites
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Living off the Land
- Mimikatz
- PlugX
- Small-Net
- WmiExec
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de