Tonto Team

APT / StateG0131
Origin🇨🇳 China
Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)15
SourceMITRE ATT&CK
State sponsor: ChinaAttribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Military, Government, Private sector
Targeted regions: Eastern Europe · Japan · South Korea · Taiwan · United States
Also known as:Earth AkhlutBRONZE HUNTLEYCactusPeteKarma Panda

Vexday analysis

Tonto Team é um grupo de espionagem cibernética de origem chinesa, suspeito de ser patrocinado pelo Estado, ativo desde pelo menos 2009 e identificado no MITRE ATT&CK como G0131. O grupo atuou inicialmente contra alvos na Coreia do Sul, Japão, Taiwan e Estados Unidos, expandindo suas operações a partir de 2020 para outros países asiáticos e do Leste Europeu, com foco em organizações governamentais, militares, de energia, mineração, financeiras, educacionais, de saúde e de tecnologia — incluindo as campanhas Heartbeat Campaign (2009–2012) e Operation Bitter Biscuit (2017). Também conhecido pelos aliases Earth Akhlut, BRONZE HUNTLEY, CactusPete e Karma Panda, o grupo possui 15 técnicas documentadas no MITRE ATT&CK e 10 CVEs a ele atribuídas.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity62
Impact: High
T1566.001T1059.001T1505.003T1068T1069.001T1210ENTRYInitial accessSpearphishingAttachmentEXECExecutionPowerShellPERSPersistenceWeb ShellPRIVPrivilege escalationExploitation forPrivilege Escalat…DISCDiscoveryLocal GroupsLATLateral movementExploitation ofRemote ServicesCOLLCollectionKeylogging

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 15

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Known infrastructure 3

Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox
md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox
sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

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