- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2017
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0367 · webworm
ChinaWhat it is
Space Pirates is a cybercrime group that has been active since at least 2017. They primarily target Russian companies and have been observed using various malware, including Deed RAT and ShadowPad. The group uses a combination of publicly available tools and their own protocols to communicate with their command-and-control servers.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- Space Pirates, Erudite Mogwai
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
Targets
- Countries
- Georgia, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia
- Sectors
- Aerospace, Energy, IT
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- 9002 RAT
- BH_A006
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Deed RAT
- Gh0st RAT
- MyKLoadClient
- PCShare
- PlugX
- Poison Ivy
- SPACESHIP
- ShadowPad Winnti
- Trochilus RAT
- Zupdax
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de