- 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.
Western sources
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
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de