GINC-APT-0430 · State

Operation Shadow Force

Also WIP19, Larva-24013, Shadow Force, TA-ShadowCricket.

Category
State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
Origin
China(high confidence)
Sources
5 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0430 · operation-shadow-force

What it is

Operation Shadow Force is a group of malware that is representative of Shadow Force and Wgdrop from 2013 to 2020, and is a group activity that attacks Korean companies and organizations. The group's first confirmed attack was in March 2013, but considering the date of malware creation, it is likely to have been active before 2012. Since the malware used mainly by them is Shadow Force, it was named Operation Shadow Force, and it has not been confirmed whether the attacker is associated with a known group.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

Other names
WIP19, Larva-24013, Shadow Force, TA-ShadowCricket

Attribution

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

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • SQLMaggie
  • ScreenCap
  • WinEggDrop

Sources

  • Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de