GINC-APT-1047 · State

UNC6508

Category
State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
Origin
China(high confidence)
Sources
3 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-1047 · unc6508

What it is

UNC6508 is a PRC-nexus threat actor targeting North American academic, medical, and military research institutions, employing tactics such as exploiting REDCap servers and deploying custom malware named INFINITERED. The actor utilized credential harvesting, internal reconnaissance, and a web shell named "help.php" for persistence. They also manipulated content compliance rules for covert data exfiltration, forwarding sensitive email communications to a threat actor-controlled Gmail address. GTIG attributes this espionage activity to UNC6508 with high confidence, based on infrastructure overlaps and specific targeting of defense and medical research sectors.

Attribution

Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • Xploit

Sources

  • Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de