APT / StateG0060

BRONZE BUTLER

Also known as: G0060, Nian, PLA Unit 61419, REDBALDKNIGHT, STALKER PANDA, Stalker Taurus and 4 more

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About the group

BRONZE BUTLER is a cyber espionage group with likely Chinese origins that has been active since at least 2008. The group primarily targets Japanese organizations, particularly those in government, biotechnology, electronics manufacturing, and industrial chemistry.

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 severity80

Impact: High

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) 40

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

Resource development

Tool

Initial access

Drive-by Compromise Spearphishing Attachment

Execution

At Scheduled Task PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Python Exploitation for Client Execution Malicious File

Persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Privilege escalation

Bypass User Account Control

Credential access

LSASS Memory

Discovery

System Service Discovery Remote System Discovery File and Directory Discovery Domain Account System Time Discovery Software Discovery

Lateral movement

Taint Shared Content Pass the Ticket

Collection

Data from Local System Data from Network Shared Drive Screen Capture Archive via Utility

Command and control

Web Protocols Dead Drop Resolver Ingress Tool Transfer Standard Encoding Symmetric Cryptography

defense-impairment

Disable or Modify Tools

stealth

Binary Padding Steganography Masquerading Right-to-Left Override Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location File Deletion Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information DLL

Exploited vulnerabilities 7

CVEs this group is known to exploit, with the source and confidence of each next to it. Ordered by confidence and real-world severity.

CVE-2018-13379CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CISA

CVE-2021-34473CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CISA

CVE-2018-0798HIGHEPSS 95%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2018-0802HIGHEPSS 93%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2014-4114HIGHEPSS 82%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2020-12812HIGHEPSS 45%KEV CISA

CVE-2019-5591MEDIUMEPSS 19%KEV CISA

Known infrastructure 10

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

md5_hash898d994607ccd834cdbddc7fb4cc8242MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hash97479f00486752b22b3d19feffde5fc4e23c615fMimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash46deeb93c5d7be110d5459abc663ab8edc4bf2d8e098e0d3e96f613205d556f9MimiKatzthreatfox

urlhttp://92.127.156.174:8880/master.exeMimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hashfec27228340485485f6902f8759bbd62MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hash07b35a3b431e653ddcf36cecd49793d538e2aa79MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hashf9d53fdcc12d548e6c9bd395642f30d2b2c6a9a4204bc0948badf8a7c571c072MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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