- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2017
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0214 · ironhusky
ChinaWhat it is
IronHusky is a Chinese-based threat actor first attributed in July 2017 targeting Russian and Mongolian governments, as well as aviation companies and research institutes. Since their initial attacks ceased in 2018, they have been working on a new remote access trojan dubbed MysterySnail.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Operations
- Operation “MysterySnail”
- Other names
- BBCY-TA1
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
- Mongolia, Russia
- Sectors
- Defense, Financial, Government
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- CVE-2021-40449
- MysterySnail
- MysterySnail RAT
- PlugX
- Poison Ivy
- Remote Utilities
- RemoteCMD
- RemotePC
- Trojan.Karagany
- Trojan.Mebromi
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de