- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0944 · slime88
ChinaWhat it is
SLIME88 is a China-nexus APT that has exploited the critical vulnerability CVE-2026-34197 in Apache ActiveMQ to deploy SoxAgent RAT, compromising Linux devices and establishing an ORB network tracked as GOBLIN14. The group has targeted IT and manufacturing entities in the US, South Korea, India, and France. Additionally, SLIME88 has aimed at Taiwan’s energy sector using phishing emails and fake certificate installers to deploy backdoor programs like AdaptixC2 and CobaltStrike. They often utilize Cloudflare to obscure their C2 IP addresses, evading detection.
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.
- Agent.btz
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- China Chopper
- CloudDuke
- Cobalt Strike
- XAgentOSX
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de