- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-1003 · tstark
What it is
TStark is a threat actor identified by X-Ops, associated with a cluster of devices that executed the bookmark buffer overflow exploit targeting CVE-2020-15069 (T1203). The actor exhibited odd telemetry behavior indicative of intermittent VPN usage, switching between IP addresses geolocated to Hong Kong and Chengdu. Analysis revealed malware samples for Mac OS X and iOS, as well as IFRAME injection code exploiting a WebAssembly vulnerability (T1189). Additionally, TStark was linked to the development of libsophos.so and the deployment of malicious payloads across their devices.
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.
- CrossRat
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de