- Category
- Hacktivist · Political or nationalist, often disruption and leaks.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Sources
- 4 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0511 · dragonbreath
What it is
Golden Eye Dog targets Chinese-speaking users engaged in online gambling, employing techniques such as SERP poisoning, social engineering, and DDoS attacks. The group utilizes trojanized NSIS installers to deliver RONINGLOADER, which executes complex process-injection workflows and deploys a modified Gh0st RAT for espionage. Their operations have included DLL sideloading and the use of watering hole websites to implant Trojans. The group is noted for its high anti-detection capabilities and has been associated with various malware development languages.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- QiAnXin
- APT-Q-27,
- Other names
- Golden Eye Dog
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- GOlden Phoenix
- Gh0st RAT
- PoisonIvy
- Trojan.Karagany
- Trojan.Mebromi
- gh0st
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de