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APT16

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reference profile · reported nexus: CN (not nationality)

Between November 26, 2015, and December 1, 2015, known and suspected China-based APT groups launched several spear-phishing attacks targeting Japanese and Taiwanese organizations in the high-tech, government services, media and financial services industries. Each campaign delivered a malicious Microsoft Word document exploiting the aforementioned EPS dict copy use-after-free vulnerability, and the local Windows privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2015-1701. The successful exploitation of both vulnerabilities led to the delivery of either a downloader that we refer to as IRONHALO, or a backdoor that we refer to as ELMER.

Source-reported aliases: SVCMONDR, G0023. Associations do not prove equivalence.

Target geography

Catalog-listed countries (associations, not attack counts): Japan · Taiwan

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Historical casebook

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References

Pinned source catalog

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/12/the_eps_awakens.html

https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations/apt-16

https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0023

https://www.mandiant.com/resources/insights/apt-groups

https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/74828/cve-2015-2545-overview-of-current-threats/

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