- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-1018 · uat-6382
What it is
UAT-6382 is a Chinese-speaking threat actor that exploits CVE-2025-0944 to gain access to enterprise networks, particularly targeting local governing bodies in the U.S. They deploy web shells like AntSword and chinatso/Chopper on IIS web servers and utilize Rust-based loaders to implement Cobalt Strike and VSHell for persistent access. UAT-6382 employs custom tooling, such as TetraLoader, and conducts reconnaissance to identify and exfiltrate files of interest. Their VShell stager connects to a hardcoded C2 server and executes payloads in memory, indicating modifications made by the actor.
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.
- China Chopper
- Cobalt Strike
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de