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APT31

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APT31 is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 29 techniques and also known as 8 other names.

Also known as

ZIRCONIUM, JUDGMENT PANDA, BRONZE VINEWOOD, Red keres, Violet Typhoon, TA412, Zirconium, TIDE CASTLE

Description

FireEye characterizes APT31 as an actor specialized on intellectual property theft, focusing on data and projects that make a particular organization competetive in its field. Based on available data (April 2016), FireEye assesses that APT31 conducts network operations at the behest of the Chinese Government. Also according to Crowdstrike, this adversary is suspected of continuing to target upstream providers (e.g., law firms and managed service providers) to support additional intrusions against high-profile assets. In 2018, CrowdStrike observed this adversary using spear-phishing, URL “web bugs” and scheduled tasks to automate credential harvesting.

Techniques by tactic

Command and Control

Credential Access

Discovery

Execution

Exfiltration

Initial Access

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Stealth

Attributed infrastructure

Infrastructure with a published ATTRIBUTED_TO link to APT31 in WhisperGraph. Attribution is sparse graph-wide — this list is rarely exhaustive.

References

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Related pages

Pivot from APT31 into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.

Queries

Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.


MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
       a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25
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Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.


MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000
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Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.


MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25
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