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UAT-9686

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UAT-9686 is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.

Description

UAT-9686 is a Chinese state-sponsored APT known for targeting networking infrastructure and edge appliances through a sophisticated espionage campaign. They exploit a critical flaw in the Cisco AsyncOS Spam Quarantine interface to gain root access and deploy custom malware, including AquaShell, along with Python scripts that execute natively. Their operations involve reverse tunneling and log purging, demonstrating a methodical approach to compromising communication infrastructure. Talos has observed overlaps in TTPs and tooling with other Chinese-nexus threat actors, indicating a consistent operational pattern.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for UAT-9686 in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to UAT-9686 today — this states the absence of a published link, not that UAT-9686 has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

Pivot from UAT-9686 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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