Tonto Team

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:BRONZE HUNTLEYCOPPERCactusPeteEarth AkhlutG0131KARMA PANDAKarma PandaLONE CASTLEPLA Unit 65017Red BeifangTAG-74

About the group

Tonto Team is a suspected Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage threat group that has primarily targeted South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States since at least 2009; by 2020 they expanded operations to include other Asian as well as Eastern European countries. Tonto Team has targeted government, military, energy, mining, financial, education, healthcare, and technology organizations, including through the Heartbeat Campaign (2009-2012) and Operation Bitter Biscuit (2017).

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

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.

Initial access

Spearphishing Attachment

Execution

PowerShell Python Exploitation for Client Execution Malicious File

Persistence

Web Shell

Privilege escalation

Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Credential access

OS Credential Dumping

Discovery

Local Groups Network Share Discovery

Lateral movement

Exploitation of Remote Services

Collection

Keylogging

Command and control

External Proxy Ingress Tool Transfer

stealth

DLL

Exploited vulnerabilities 10

CVEs this group is known to exploit, per MITRE ATT&CK. Ordered by real-world severity.

CVE-2017-11882HIGHEPSS 100%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2014-7169CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

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

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

CVE-2018-8174HIGHEPSS 88%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2019-0803HIGHEPSS 45%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2020-8468HIGHEPSS 6%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2016-6662EPSS 68% MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2017-0176EPSS 46% MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2019-9489EPSS 2% MITRE ATT&CK

Known infrastructure 17

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

ip:port43.139.9.82:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port166.88.7.116:443ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port122.114.8.224:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port122.114.252.72:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port119.91.36.172:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port117.50.118.106:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port112.95.159.90:50012ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port111.230.253.13:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

urlhttp://92.127.156.174:8880/master.exeMimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hashfec27228340485485f6902f8759bbd62MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hashf9d53fdcc12d548e6c9bd395642f30d2b2c6a9a4204bc0948badf8a7c571c072MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hash07b35a3b431e653ddcf36cecd49793d538e2aa79MimiKatzthreatfox

ip:port122.114.12.82:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

ip:port122.114.166.126:12340ShadowPadthreatfox

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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