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Tick  (Back to overview)

aka: BRONZE BUTLER, G0060, Nian, PLA Unit 61419, REDBALDKNIGHT, STALKER PANDA, Stalker Taurus

Tick is a cyber espionage group with likely Chinese origins that has been active since at least 2008. The group appears to have close ties to the Chinese National University of Defense and Technology, which is possibly linked to the PLA. This threat actor targets organizations in the critical infrastructure, heavy industry, manufacturing, and international relations sectors for espionage purposes. The attacks appear to be centered on political, media, and engineering sectors. STALKER PANDA has been observed conducting targeted attacks against Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States.


Associated Families
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References
2023-11-10AhnLabASEC Analysis Team
Detection of attacks exploiting asset management software (Andariel Group)
Lilith Tiger RAT
2023-04-05Medium IlanduIlan Duhin
PortDoor - APT Backdoor analysis
ACBackdoor 8.t Dropper PortDoor
2023-03-07Check Point ResearchCheck Point Research
Pandas with a Soul: Chinese Espionage Attacks Against Southeast Asian Government Entities
5.t Downloader 8.t Dropper Soul
2023-02-23SymantecThreat Hunter Team
Clasiopa: New Group Targets Materials Research
Atharvan HazyLoad Lilith
2023-02-07MalGamyMalGamy
The Approach of TA413 for Tibetan Targets
8.t Dropper LOWZERO
2022-10-05ZscalerAditya Sharma, Shatak Jain
Analysis of LilithBot Malware and Eternity Threat Group
Eternity Clipper Eternity Stealer Lilith
2022-09-22Recorded FutureInsikt Group®
Chinese State-Sponsored Group TA413 Adopts New Capabilities in Pursuit of Tibetan Targets
8.t Dropper LOWZERO
2022-07-18Palo Alto Networks Unit 42Unit 42
Stalker Taurus
Tick
2022-07-12cybleCyble Research Labs
New Ransomware Groups On The Rise: “RedAlert,” LILITH And 0mega Leading A Wave Of Ransomware Campaigns
RedAlert Ransomware Lilith
2022-07-07Sentinel LABSTom Hegel
Targets of Interest - Russian Organizations Increasingly Under Attack By Chinese APTs
8.t Dropper Korlia Tonto Team
2022-05-18YoroiCarmelo Ragusa, Luigi Martire, Yoroi Malware ZLab
A deep dive into Eternity Group: A new emerging Cyber Threat
Eternity Ransomware Eternity Stealer Eternity Worm Lilith
2021-12-14Trend MicroNick Dai, Ted Lee, Vickie Su
Collecting In the Dark: Tropic Trooper Targets Transportation and Government
ChiserClient Ghost RAT Lilith Quasar RAT xPack APT23
2021-10-26KasperskyKaspersky Lab ICS CERT
APT attacks on industrial organizations in H1 2021
8.t Dropper AllaKore AsyncRAT GoldMax LimeRAT NjRAT NoxPlayer Raindrop ReverseRAT ShadowPad Zebrocy
2021-07-07TalosAsheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil
InSideCopy: How this APT continues to evolve its arsenal
AllaKore Lilith NjRAT
2021-07-07TalosAsheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil
InSideCopy: How this APT continues to evolve its arsenal (IOCs)
AllaKore Lilith NjRAT
2021-07-07TalosAsheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil
InSideCopy: How this APT continues to evolve its arsenal (Network IOCs)
AllaKore Lilith NjRAT
2021-07-02CiscoAsheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil
InSideCopy: How this APT continues to evolve its arsenal
AllaKore CetaRAT Lilith NjRAT ReverseRAT
2021-04-20Twitter (@iiyonite)Stefan Soesanto
Tweet on Uniti 61419
Tick
2021-03-10ESET ResearchMathieu Tartare, Matthieu Faou, Thomas Dupuy
Exchange servers under siege from at least 10 APT groups
Microcin MimiKatz PlugX Winnti APT27 APT41 Calypso Tick ToddyCat Tonto Team Vicious Panda
2021-02-28PWC UKPWC UK
Cyber Threats 2020: A Year in Retrospect
elf.wellmess FlowerPower PowGoop 8.t Dropper Agent.BTZ Agent Tesla Appleseed Ave Maria Bankshot BazarBackdoor BLINDINGCAN Chinoxy Conti Cotx RAT Crimson RAT DUSTMAN Emotet FriedEx FunnyDream Hakbit Mailto Maze METALJACK Nefilim Oblique RAT Pay2Key PlugX QakBot REvil Ryuk StoneDrill StrongPity SUNBURST SUPERNOVA TrickBot TurlaRPC Turla SilentMoon WastedLocker WellMess Winnti ZeroCleare APT10 APT23 APT27 APT31 APT41 BlackTech BRONZE EDGEWOOD Inception Framework MUSTANG PANDA Red Charon Red Nue Sea Turtle Tonto Team
2021-01-13AlienVaultTom Hegel
A Global Perspective of the SideWinder APT
8.t Dropper Koadic SideWinder
2021-01-04nao_sec blognao_sec
Royal Road! Re:Dive
8.t Dropper Chinoxy FlowCloud FunnyDream Lookback
2020-09-16RiskIQJon Gross
RiskIQ: Adventures in Cookie Land - Part 2
8.t Dropper Chinoxy Poison Ivy
2020-08-19RiskIQCory Kennedy, Jon Gross
RiskIQ Adventures in Cookie Land - Part 1
8.t Dropper Chinoxy
2020-08-19NTT SecurityFumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi
Operation LagTime IT: Colorful Panda Footprint
8.t Dropper Cotx RAT Poison Ivy TA428
2020-06-03Kaspersky LabsGiampaolo Dedola, GReAT, Mark Lechtik
Cycldek: Bridging the (air) gap
8.t Dropper NewCore RAT PlugX USBCulprit GOBLIN PANDA Hellsing
2020-03-21MalwareLab.plMaciej Kotowicz
On the Royal Road
8.t Dropper
2020-03-20Medium SebdravenSébastien Larinier
New version of chinoxy backdoor using COVID19 alerts document lure
8.t Dropper Chinoxy
2020-03-12Check PointCheck Point Research
Vicious Panda: The COVID Campaign
8.t Dropper BYEBY Enfal Korlia Poison Ivy
2020-03-12Check Point ResearchCheck Point
Vicious Panda: The COVID Campaign
8.t Dropper Vicious Panda
2020-03-11Virus BulletinGhareeb Saad, Michael Raggi
Attribution is in the object: using RTF object dimensions to track APT phishing weaponizers
8.t Dropper
2020-03-04CrowdStrikeCrowdStrike
2020 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report
MESSAGETAP More_eggs 8.t Dropper Anchor BabyShark BadNews Clop Cobalt Strike CobInt Cobra Carbon System Cutwail DanaBot Dharma DoppelDridex DoppelPaymer Dridex Emotet FlawedAmmyy FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 IcedID ISFB KerrDown LightNeuron LockerGoga Maze MECHANICAL Necurs Nokki Outlook Backdoor Phobos Predator The Thief QakBot REvil RobinHood Ryuk SDBbot Skipper SmokeLoader TerraRecon TerraStealer TerraTV TinyLoader TrickBot Vidar Winnti ANTHROPOID SPIDER APT23 APT31 APT39 APT40 BlackTech BuhTrap Charming Kitten CLOCKWORK SPIDER DOPPEL SPIDER FIN7 Gamaredon Group GOBLIN PANDA MONTY SPIDER MUSTANG PANDA NARWHAL SPIDER NOCTURNAL SPIDER PINCHY SPIDER SALTY SPIDER SCULLY SPIDER SMOKY SPIDER Thrip VENOM SPIDER VICEROY TIGER
2020-01-29nao_sec blognao_sec
An Overhead View of the Royal Road
BLACKCOFFEE Cotx RAT Datper DDKONG Derusbi Icefog Korlia NewCore RAT PLAINTEE Poison Ivy Sisfader
2020-01-28Macnica NetworksMacnica Networks
Tick ​​Group Aiming at Japanese Manufacturing
Datper xxmm
2020-01-17JPCERT/CCTakayoshi Shiigi
Looking back on the incidents in 2019
TSCookie NodeRAT Emotet PoshC2 Quasar RAT
2020-01-01SecureworksSecureWorks
BRONZE BUTLER
Daserf xxmm Tick
2019-11-29Trend MicroHiroyuki Kakara, Joey Chen, Masaoki Shoji
Operation ENDTRADE: Finding Multi-Stage Backdoors that TICK
Datper Lilith
2019-11-29Trend MicroHiroyuki Kakara, Joey Chen, Masaoki Shoji
Operation ENDTRADE:TICK: 2019s Multi-Stage Backdoors for Attacking Industries and Stealing Classified Data
BROLER
2019-11-11Virus BulletinHiroshi Soeda, Shusei Tomonaga, Tomoaki Tani, Wataru Takahashi
APT cases exploiting vulnerabilities in region‑specific software
NodeRAT Emdivi PlugX
2019-10-01Macnica NetworksMacnica Networks
Trends in Cyber ​​Espionage Targeting Japan 1st Half of 2019
PLEAD TSCookie Datper PLEAD
2019-09-22Check Point ResearchCheck Point Research
Rancor: The Year of The Phish
8.t Dropper Cobalt Strike
2019-09-19GitHub (werkamsus)werkamsus
Lilith
Lilith
2019-07-23ProofpointDennis Schwarz, Michael Raggi, Proofpoint Threat Insight Team
Chinese APT “Operation LagTime IT” Targets Government Information Technology Agencies in Eastern Asia
8.t Dropper Cotx RAT Poison Ivy TA428
2019-04-01Macnica NetworksMacnica Networks
Trends in Cyber ​​Espionage Targeting Japan 2nd Half of 2018
Anel Cobalt Strike Datper PLEAD Quasar RAT RedLeaves taidoor Zebrocy
2019-03-05AccentureAccenture
MUDCARP's Focus on Submarine Technologies
8.t Dropper APT40
2019-02-19JPCERT/CCShusei Tomonaga
攻撃グループTickによる日本の組織をターゲットにした攻撃活動
NodeRAT
2019-01-18Dell SecureworksYou Nakatsuru
Understanding Command and Control - An Anatomy of xxmm Communication
xxmm
2019-01-03m4n0w4r
Another malicious document with CVE-2017–11882
8.t Dropper
2019-01-01MITREMITRE ATT&CK
Group description: BRONZE BUTLER
Tick
2019-01-01Council on Foreign RelationsCyber Operations Tracker
Bronze Butler
Tick
2018-11-03m4n0w4r
Là 1937CN hay OceanLotus hay Lazarus …
8.t Dropper
2018-10-01Macnica NetworksMacnica Networks
Trends in cyber espionage (targeted attacks) targeting Japan | First half of 2018
Anel Cobalt Strike Datper FlawedAmmyy Quasar RAT RedLeaves taidoor Winnti xxmm
2018-07-31Medium SebdravenSébastien Larinier
Malicious document targets Vietnamese officials
8.t Dropper PlugX 1937CN
2018-07-31Medium SebdravenSébastien Larinier
Malicious document targets Vietnamese officials
8.t Dropper
2017-11-07Trend MicroTrendmicro
REDBALDKNIGHT/BRONZE BUTLER’s Daserf Backdoor Now Using Steganography
Daserf Datper xxmm
2017-11-07Trend MicroJoey Chen, MingYen Hsieh
REDBALDKNIGHT/BRONZE BUTLER’s Daserf Backdoor Now Using Steganography
Tick
2017-10-12SecureworksCTU Research Team
BRONZE BUTLER Targets Japanese Enterprises
Daserf Datper rarstar xxmm Tick
2017-08-21JPCERT/CCYu Nakamura
Detecting Datper Malware from Proxy Logs
Datper Tick
2017-07-25Palo Alto Networks Unit 42Kaoru Hayashi
“Tick” Group Continues Attacks
Daserf Tick
2017-06-28SecureworksSecureWorks
日本企業を狙う高度なサイバー攻撃の全貌 – BRONZE BUTLER
Tick
2017-04-25CybereasonAssaf Dahan
ShadowWali: New variant of the xxmm family of backdoors
xxmm
2016-04-28SymantecJon DiMaggio
Tick cyberespionage group zeros in on Japan
Tick
2015-08-14Raytheon Blackbird TechnologiesRaytheon Blackbird Technologies
Stalker Panda
Tick

Credits: MISP Project