GINC-APT-0398 · State

Earth Baxia

Category
State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
Origin
China(high confidence)
Motivation
Information theft and espionage
Seen
2024
Sources
5 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0398 · earth-baxia

What it is

Earth Baxia is a threat actor opearting out of China, targeting government organizations in Taiwan and potentially across the APAC region, using spear-phishing emails and exploiting the GeoServer vulnerability CVE-2024-36401 for remote code execution, deploying customized Cobalt Strike components with altered signatures, leveraging GrimResource and AppDomainManager injection techniques to deliver additional payloads, and utilizing a new backdoor named EAGLEDOOR for multi-protocol communication and payload delivery.

Attribution

Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.

Targets

Countries
China, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Sectors
Energy, Government

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • Backdoor.Oldrea
  • China Chopper
  • Cobalt Strike
  • CrossRat
  • EAGLEDOOR
  • Remote Utilities
  • RemoteCMD
  • RemotePC
  • Xploit

Sources