- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2008
- ATT&CK
- G0015
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0177 · budminer
ChinaWhat it is
Based on the evidence we have presented Symantec attributed the activity involving theDripion malware to the Budminer advanced threat group. While we have not seen newcampaigns using Taidoor malware since 2014, we believe the Budminer group has changedtactics to avoid detection after being outed publicly in security white papers and blogs over thepast few years.
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
- G0015
- Trend Micro
- Earth Aughisky
- Other names
- Taidoor, Budminer cyberespionage group, EarthAughisky
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
- Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, United States
- Sectors
- Government
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- GrubbyRAT
- LuckDLL
- Miner-C
- Roudan
- SVCMONDR
- SiyBot
- Taidoor
- Taikite
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de