- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Espionage; Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2015–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0017
- Sources
- 9 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0084 · dragonok
ChinaWhat it is
DragonOK is a threat group that has targeted Japanese organizations with phishing emails. Due to overlapping TTPs, including similar custom tools, DragonOK is thought to have a direct or indirect relationship with the threat group Moafee. It is known to use a variety of malware, including Sysget/HelloBridge, PlugX, PoisonIvy, FormerFirstRat, NFlog, and NewCT.
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
- G0017
- Operations
- Operation Dragon Castling
- Other names
- Bronze Overbrook, Dragon Castling, Moafee, Shallow Taurus
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
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Targets
- Countries
- Cambodia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Tibet, United States
- Sectors
- Casinos and Gambling, High-Tech, Manufacturing, Private sector
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- CVE-2015-1641
- FormerFirstRAT
- HTran
- IsSpace
- KHRAT
- Mongall
- NFlog
- NewCT
- PlugX
- Poison Ivy
- PoisonIvy
- Rambo
- Rambo Backdoor
- Sysget
- TidePool
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de