- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0831 · longnosedgoblin
What it is
LongNosedGoblin is a China-aligned APT group targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan for cyberespionage. The group employs Group Policy for malware deployment and utilizes cloud services like Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive as C&C servers. Their operations feature a modular malware ecosystem, including backdoors, browser data stealers, and PowerShell-based downloaders that execute multi-stage payloads in memory. LongNosedGoblin's tactics emphasize reconnaissance-driven targeting and the abuse of trusted enterprise mechanisms, allowing for stealthy persistence within compromised networks.
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
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- China Chopper
- CloudDuke
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- POWERSOURCE
- POWERSTATS
- Power Loader
- PowerDuke
- PowerRAT
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de