- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2011–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0011 · 2 techniques
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0334 · pittytiger
ChinaWhat it is
PittyTiger is a threat group believed to operate out of China that uses multiple different types of malware to maintain command and control.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- CrowdStrike
- Pitty Panda, Pitty Tiger, PittyTiger, Pitty Panda
- Mandiant
- APT24
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0011
- Operations
- Operation “The Eye of the Tiger”
- Other names
- Temp.Pittytiger
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
- ETDA / ThaiCERTChina
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)China
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Targets
- Countries
- Taiwan
- Sectors
- Defense, Government, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Lurid
- Mimikatz
- Paladin RAT
- PittyTiger
- PoisonIvy
- gh0st RAT
- gsecdump
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th