Threat actor
APT5
Last fetched
APT5 is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 29 techniques and also known as 9 other names.
Also known as
KEYHOLE PANDA, MANGANESE, BRONZE FLEETWOOD, TEMP.Bottle, Mulberry Typhoon, Poisoned Flight, BASALT CASTLE, Keyhole Panda, UNC2630
Description
[APT5](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1023) is a China-based espionage actor that has been active since at least 2007 primarily targeting the telecommunications, aerospace, and defense industries throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. [APT5](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1023) has displayed advanced tradecraft and significant interest in compromising networking devices and their underlying software including through the use of zero-day exploits.(Citation: NSA APT5 Citrix Threat Hunting December 2022)(Citation: Microsoft East Asia Threats September 2023)(Citation: Mandiant Pulse Secure Zero-Day April 2021)(Citation: Mandiant Pulse Secure Update May 2021)(Citation: FireEye Southeast Asia Threat Landscape March 2015)(Citation: Mandiant Advanced Persistent Threats)
Techniques by tactic
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to APT5 today — this states the absence of a published link, not that APT5 has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/apt-groups.html
- https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/current-threats/pdfs/rpt-southeast-asia-threat-landscape.pdf
- https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/bronze-fleetwood
- https://www.mandiant.com/resources/insights/apt-groups
- https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RWMFIi
- http://internal-www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/04/suspected-apt-actors-leverage-bypass-techniques-pulse-secure-zero-day.html
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/updated-cyber-threat-actor-naming-system/
- https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1023
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220122121143/https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/current-threats/pdfs/rpt-southeast-asia-threat-landscape.pdf
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/intelligence/microsoft-threat-actor-naming?view=o365-worldwide
- https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW1aFyW
- https://media.defense.gov/2022/Dec/13/2003131586/-1/-1/0/CSA-APT5-CITRIXADC-V1.PDF
- https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/suspected-apt-actors-leverage-bypass-techniques-pulse-secure-zero-day
- https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/updates-on-chinese-apt-compromising-pulse-secure-vpn-devices
© The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.
Related pages
Pivot from APT5 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 25Techniques 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 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.