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APT5 threat group

APT5 is a threat group. Public reporting links it to 21 attack techniques. This free profile shows how it works, stage by stage, so you can judge the risk to you. It lists the other names the group goes by and links to every public report behind it.

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Attack techniques
21
Public reports
6
Thought to operate from
Not known
Other names
6
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is APT5?

APT5 has 6 other names in security research. Below is what published reporting says about it, with a link to every report so you can check the detail yourself.

Also known as

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Security companies each give the same group their own name, so one group can have many.

What public reporting says

We have observed one APT group, which we call APT5, particularly focused on telecommunications and technology companies. More than half of the organizations we have observed being targeted or breached by APT5 operate in these sectors. Several times, APT5 has targeted organizations and personnel based in Southeast Asia. APT5 has been active since at least 2007. It appears to be a large threat group that consists of several subgroups, often with distinct tactics and infrastructure. APT5 has targeted or breached organizations across multiple industries, but its focus appears to be on telecommunications and technology companies, especially information about satellite communications. APT5 targeted the network of an electronics firm that sells products for both industrial and military applications. The group subsequently stole communications related to the firm’s business relationship with a national military, including inventories and memoranda about specific products they provided. In one case in late 2014, APT5 breached the network of an international telecommunications company. The group used malware with keylogging capabilities to monitor the computer of an executive who manages the company’s relationships with other telecommunications companies

Public reports about APT5 (6)

How it works

How does APT5 attack? Stage by stage.

Each technique is a known way attackers research, get in, stay hidden or do damage. Here are the 21 linked to APT5, laid out from first look to final blow. Some techniques belong to more than one stage. Pick a stage to see them. Public reporting also lists 19 more specific variations of them, called sub-techniques.

Stage 5 of 15

Staying in

Making sure they keep access after a restart or a password change.

6 techniques
  • T1053Scheduled Task/Job
  • T1078Valid Accounts
  • T1098Account Manipulation
  • T1136Create Account
  • T1505Server Software Component
  • T1554Compromise Host Software Binary
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APT5 is a threat group. Public reporting links it to 21 attack techniques.

Public reporting links APT5 to 21 attack techniques. Most of them are about staying in, taking control and hiding.

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