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APT3 is a China-linked cyber espionage threat group widely tracked under aliases including Gothic Panda, Buckeye, UPS Team, TG-0110, Threat Group-0110, Boron, Red Sylvan, OldCarp, Cybran, and Brocade Typhoon. The group has been assessed as possessing nation-state-level capability and as operating on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Its operations are consistent with long-term intelligence collection rather than financially motivated crime. APT3 has demonstrated mature post-compromise tradecraft across credential access, reconnaissance, persistence, execution, and data theft. Reported capabilities include dumping passwords from web browsers, using keylogging malware, enumerating running processes, collecting local system and network configuration information, identifying Microsoft Office documents on victim hosts, and exfiltrating data over command-and-control channels. The group has also used command execution to verify privilege level, copied files to remote machines, executed commands on remote systems, and deleted files. For execution and payload delivery, APT3 has used PowerShell to download and run follow-on payloads after exploitation, including concealed PowerShell execution to reduce user visibility. For persistence, the group has used scheduled tasks and startup-folder scripts. It has also employed DLL side-loading, including abuse of legitimate software to load malicious libraries, as part of defense evasion and malware execution. Overall, APT3 is best characterized as a Chinese state-aligned espionage actor with broad Windows-focused intrusion capabilities and disciplined operational tradecraft.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
56 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
16 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
11 additional families tracked in Mallory.
4 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 4 of them exploited in the wild.
the most recent original zero-day released by this group is tracked by CVE-2015-3113, which has similarities to the once zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2014-1776 and CVE-2014-6332 exploited by UPS in May and November 2014, respectively.
Unit 42 recently analyzed malicious Flash files that exploited CVE-2015-3113, which was a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash that was patched on June 23, 2015.
This detection identifies instances where Windows Explorer.exe spawns PowerShell or cmd.exe processes, particularly focusing on executions initiated by LNK files. This behavior is associated with the ZDI-CAN-25373 Windows shortcut zero-day vulnerability, where specially crafted LNK files are used to trigger malicious code execution through cmd.exe or powershell.exe. This technique has been actively exploited by multiple APT groups in targeted attacks through both HTTP and SMB delivery methods.
the most recent original zero-day released by this group is tracked by CVE-2015-3113, which has similarities to the once zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2014-1776 and CVE-2014-6332 exploited by UPS in May and November 2014, respectively.
91 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Listed as one of many threat actors associated with the detection's ATT&CK-style annotations for PowerShell and DNS TXT command-and-control behavior; no specific campaign or activity is described in this reference.
Mentioned only as one of many threat actors associated with the generic discovery technique of running the Linux id command.
Listed as an associated threat actor in the detection annotation for exploitation of the public-facing PTC Windchill vulnerability CVE-2026-4681.
Uses credential dumping by injecting tooling into LSASS to extract credentials.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.