- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0986 · ta4922
What it is
TA4922 is a Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster that employs localized HR, payroll, tax, and invoice lures to deliver various malware families, including Atlas RAT, RomulusLoader, and SilentRunLoader. The actor conducts targeted email campaigns, often impersonating trusted authorities, to facilitate credential phishing and fraud. TA4922's operational tempo is high, with a focus on obtaining remote access for financial gain, and it has shown a rapid evolution in its malware arsenal. The group is also noted for using social engineering to shift communications from email to messaging platforms, enhancing their phishing efforts.
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.
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Remote Utilities
- RemoteCMD
- RemotePC
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de