README.md

APT Notes

This is a repository for various publicly-available documents and notes related to APT, sorted by year. For malware sample hashes, please see the individual reports

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Papers

The papers section contains historical documents.

2006

• "Wicked Rose" and the NCPH Hacking Group

2008

• Aug 10 - Russian Invasion of Georgia Russian Cyberwar on Georgia
• Oct 02 - How China will use cyber warfare to leapfrog in military competitiveness
• Nov 04 - China's Electronic Long-Range Reconnaissance
• Nov 19 - Agent.BTZ

2009

• Jan 18 - Impact of Alleged Russian Cyber Attacks
• Mar 29 - Tracking GhostNet

2010

• Jan 12 - Operation Aurora
• Jan 13 - The Command Structure of the Aurora Botnet - Damballa
• Jan 20 - McAfee Labs: Combating Aurora
• Jan 27 - Operation Aurora Detect, Diagnose, Respond
• Jan ?? - Case Study: Operation Aurora - Triumfant
• Feb 24 - How Can I Tell if I Was Infected By Aurora? (IOCs)
• Mar 14 - In-depth Analysis of Hydraq
• Apr 06 - Shadows in the cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0
• Sep 03 - The "MSUpdater" Trojan And Ongoing Targeted Attacks
• Sep 30 - W32.Stuxnet Dossier
• Dec 09 - The Stuxnet Computer Worm: Harbinger of an Emerging Warfare Capability

2011

• Feb 10 - Global Energy Cyberattacks: Night Dragon
• Feb 18 - Night Dragon Specific Protection Measures for Consideration
• Apr 20 - Stuxnet Under the Microscope
• Aug ?? - Shady RAT
• Aug 04 - Operation Shady RAT
• Aug 02 - Operation Shady rat : Vanity
• Aug 03 - HTran and the Advanced Persistent Threat
• Sep 09 - The RSA Hack
• Sep 11 - SK Hack by an Advanced Persistent Threat
• Sep 22 - The "LURID" Downloader
• Oct 12 - Alleged APT Intrusion Set: "1.php" Group
• Oct 26 - Duqu Trojan Questions and Answers
• Oct 31 - The Nitro Attacks: Stealing Secrets from the Chemical Industry

2012

• Jan 03 - The HeartBeat APT
• Feb 03 - Command and Control in the Fifth Domain
• Feb 29 - The Sin Digoo Affair
• Mar 12 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Stolen Data
• Mar 13 - Reversing DarkComet RAT's crypto
• Mar 26 - Luckycat Redux
• Apr 10 - Anatomy of a Gh0st RAT
• Apr 16 - OSX.SabPub & Confirmed Mac APT attacks
• May 18 - Analysis of Flamer C&C Server
• May 22 - IXESHEA An APT Campaign
• May 31 - sKyWIper (Flame/Flamer)
• Jul 10 - Advanced Social Engineering for the Distribution of LURK Malware
• Jul 11 - Wired article on DarkComet creator
• Jul 27 - The Madi Campaign
• Aug 09 - Gauss: Abnormal Distribution
• Sep 06 - The Elderwood Project
• Sep 07 - IEXPLORE RAT
• Sep 12 - The VOHO Campaign: An in depth analysis
• Sep 18 - The Mirage Campaign
• Oct 08 - Matasano notes on DarkComet, Bandook, CyberGate and Xtreme RAT
• Oct 27 - Trojan.Taidoor: Targeting Think Tanks
• Nov 01 - RECOVERING FROM SHAMOON
• Nov 03 - Systematic cyber attacks against Israeli and Palestinian targets going on for a year

2013

• Jan 18 - Ooperation Red October
• Feb 12 - Targeted cyber attacks: examples and challenges ahead
• Feb 13 - Operation SnowMan: DeputyDog Actor Compromises US Veterans of Foreign Wars Website
• Feb 18 - Mandiant APT1 Report
• Feb 22 - Comment Crew: Indicators of Compromise
• Feb 26 - Stuxnet 0.5: The Missing Link
• Feb 27 - The MiniDuke Mystery: PDF 0-day Government Spy Assembler 0x29A Micro Backdoor
• Feb 27 - Miniduke: Indicators v1
• Mar 13 - You Only Click Twice: FinFisher’s Global Proliferation
• Mar 17 - Safe: A Targeted Threat
• Mar 20 - Dissecting Operation Troy
• Mar 20 - The TeamSpy Crew Attacks
• Mar 21 - Darkseoul/Jokra Analysis And Recovery
• Mar 27 - APT1: technical backstage (Terminator/Fakem RAT)
• Mar 28 - TR-12 - Analysis of a PlugX malware variant used for targeted attacks
• Apr 01 - Trojan.APT.BaneChant
• Apr 13 - "Winnti" More than just a game
• Apr 24 - Operation Hangover
• May ?? - Operation Hangover
• May 30 - TR-14 - Analysis of a stage 3 Miniduke malware sample
• Jun ?? - The Chinese Malware Complexes: The Maudi Surveillance Operation
• Jun 01 - Crude Faux: An analysis of cyber conflict within the oil & gas industries
• Jun 04 - The NetTraveller (aka 'Travnet')
• Jun 07 - KeyBoy, Targeted Attacks against Vietnam and India
• Jun 18 - Trojan.APT.Seinup Hitting ASEAN
• Jun 21 - A Call to Harm: New Malware Attacks Target the Syrian Opposition
• Jun 28 - njRAT Uncovered
• Jul 09 - Dark Seoul Cyber Attack: Could it be worse?
• Jul 15 - PlugX revisited: "Smoaler"
• Jul 31 - Secrets of the Comfoo Masters
• Jul 31 - Blackhat: In-Depth Analysis of Escalated APT Attacks (Lstudio,Elirks), video
• Aug ?? - Operation Hangover - Unveiling an Indian Cyberattack Infrastructure
• Aug ?? - APT Attacks on Indian Cyber Space
• Aug 02 - Where There is Smoke, There is Fire: South Asian Cyber Espionage Heats Up
• Aug 02 - Surtr: Malware Family Targeting the Tibetan Community
• Aug 19 - ByeBye Shell and the targeting of Pakistan
• Aug 21 - POISON IVY: Assessing Damage and Extracting Intelligence
• Aug 23 - Operation Molerats: Middle East Cyber Attacks Using Poison Ivy
• Sep ?? - Feature: EvilGrab Campaign Targets Diplomatic Agencies
• Sep 11 - The "Kimsuky" Operation
• Sep 13 - Operation DeputyDog: Zero-Day (CVE-2013-3893) Attack Against Japanese Targets
• Sep 17 - Hidden Lynx - Professional Hackers for Hire
• Sep 25 - The 'ICEFROG' APT: A Tale of cloak and three daggers
• Sep 30 - World War C: State of affairs in the APT world
• Oct 24 - Terminator RAT or FakeM RAT
• Nov 10 - Operation Ephemeral Hydra: IE Zero-Day Linked to DeputyDog Uses Diskless Method
• Nov 11 - Supply Chain Analysis
• Dev 02 - njRAT, The Saga Continues
• Dec 11 - Operation "Ke3chang"
• Dec 20 - ETSO APT Attacks Analysis
• ??? ?? - Deep Panda
• ??? ?? - Detecting and Defeating the China Chopper Web Shell

2014

• Jan 06 - PlugX: some uncovered points
• Jan 13 - Targeted attacks against the Energy Sector
• Jan 14 - The Icefog APT Hits US Targets With Java Backdoor
• Jan 15 - “New'CDTO:'A'Sneakernet'Trojan'Solution
• Jan 21 - Shell_Crew (Deep Panda)
• Jan 31 - Intruder File Report- Sneakernet Trojan
• Feb 11 - Unveiling "Careto" - The Masked APT
• Feb 13 - Operation SnowMan: DeputyDog Actor Compromises US Veterans of Foreign Wars Website
• Feb 19 - The Monju Incident
• Feb 19 - XtremeRAT: Nuisance or Threat?
• Feb 20 - Operation GreedyWonk: Multiple Economic and Foreign Policy Sites Compromised, Serving Up Flash Zero-Day Exploit
• Feb 20 - Mo' Shells Mo' Problems - Deep Panda Web Shells
• Feb 23 - Gathering in the Middle East, Operation STTEAM
• Feb 28 - Uroburos: Highly complex espionage software with Russian roots
• Mar 06 - The Siesta Campaign
• Mar 07 - Snake Campaign & Cyber Espionage Toolkit
• Mar 08 - Russian spyware Turla
• Apr 26 - CVE-2014-1776: Operation Clandestine Fox
• May 13 - Operation Saffron Rose (aka Flying Kitten)
• May 13 - CrowdStrike's report on Flying Kitten
• May 20 - Miniduke Twitter C&C
• May 21 - RAT in jar: A phishing campaign using Unrecom
• Jun 06 - Illuminating The Etumbot APT Backdoor (APT12)
• Jun 09 - Putter Panda
• Jun 20 - Embassy of Greece Beijing
• Jun 30 - Dragonfly: Cyberespionage Attacks Against Energy Suppliers
• Jun 10 - Anatomy of the Attack: Zombie Zero
• Jul 07 - Deep Pandas
• Jul 10 - TR-25 Analysis - Turla / Pfinet / Snake/ Uroburos
• Jul 11 - Pitty Tiger
• Jul 20 - Sayad (Flying Kitten) Analysis & IOCs
• Jul 31 - Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti
• Jul 31 - Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti Appendix
• Aug 04 - Sidewinder Targeted Attack Against Android
• Aug 05 - Operation Arachnophobia
• Aug 06 - Operation Poisoned Hurricane
• Aug 07 - The Epic Turla Operation Appendix
• Aug 12 - New York Times Attackers Evolve Quickly (Aumlib/Ixeshe/APT12)
• Aug 13 - A Look at Targeted Attacks Through the Lense of an NGO
• Aug 18 - The Syrian Malware House of Cards
• Aug 20 - El Machete
• Aug 25 - Vietnam APT Campaign
• Aug 27 - NetTraveler APT Gets a Makeover for 10th Birthday
• Aug 27 - North Korea’s cyber threat landscape
• Aug 28 - Scanbox: A Reconnaissance Framework Used with Watering Hole Attacks
• Aug 29 - Syrian Malware Team Uses BlackWorm for Attacks
• Sep 03 - Darwin’s Favorite APT Group (APT12)
• Sep 04 - Forced to Adapt: XSLCmd Backdoor Now on OS X
• Sep 08 - Targeted Threat Index: Characterizingand Quantifying Politically-MotivatedTargeted Malware video
• Sep 08 - When Governments Hack Opponents: A Look at Actors and Technology video
• Sep 10 - Operation Quantum Entanglement
• Sep 17 - Chinese intrusions into key defense contractors
• Sep 18 - COSMICDUKE: Cosmu with a twist of MiniDuke
• Sep 19 - Watering Hole Attacks using Poison Ivy by "th3bug" group
• Sep 23 - Ukraine and Poland Targeted by BlackEnergy (video)
• Sep 26 - Aided Frame, Aided Direction (Sunshop Digital Quartermaster)
• Sep 26 - BlackEnergy & Quedagh
• Oct 03 - New indicators for APT group Nitro
• Oct 09 - Democracy in Hong Kong Under Attack
• Oct 14 - ZoxPNG Preliminary Analysis
• Oct 14 - Hikit Preliminary Analysis
• Oct 14 - Derusbi Preliminary Analysis
• Oct 14 - Group 72 (Axiom)
• Oct 14 - Sandworm - CVE-2104-4114
• Oct 20 - OrcaRAT - A whale of a tale
• Oct 22 - Operation Pawn Storm: The Red in SEDNIT
• Oct 22 - Sofacy Phishing by PWC
• Oct 23 - Modified Tor Binaries
• Oct 24 - LeoUncia and OrcaRat
• Oct 27 - Full Disclosure of Havex Trojans - ICS Havex backdoors
• Oct 27 - ScanBox framework – who’s affected, and who’s using it?
• Oct 28 - APT28 - A Window Into Russia's Cyber Espionage Operations
• Oct 28 - Group 72, Opening the ZxShell
• Oct 30 - The Rotten Tomato Campaign
• Oct 31 - Operation TooHash
• Nov 03 - New observations on BlackEnergy2 APT activity
• Nov 03 - Operation Poisoned Handover: Unveiling Ties Between APT Activity in Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement
• Nov 10 - The Darkhotel APT - A Story of Unusual Hospitality
• Nov 11 - The Uroburos case- Agent.BTZ’s successor, ComRAT
• Nov 12 - Korplug military targeted attacks: Afghanistan & Tajikistan
• Nov 13 - Operation CloudyOmega: Ichitaro 0-day targeting Japan
• Nov 14 - OnionDuke: APT Attacks Via the Tor Network
• Nov 14 - Roaming Tiger (Slides)
• Nov 21 - Operation Double Tap | IOCs
• Nov 23 - Symantec's report on Regin
• Nov 24 - Kaspersky's report on The Regin Platform
• Nov 24 - [TheIntercept's report on The Regin Platform] (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-malware-belgacom-nsa-gchq/)
• Nov 24 - Deep Panda Uses Sakula Malware
• Nov 30 - FIN4: Stealing Insider Information for an Advantage in Stock Trading?
• Dec 02 - Operation Cleaver | IOCs
• Dec 03 - Operation Cleaver: The Notepad Files
• Dec 08 - The 'Penquin' Turla
• Dec 09 - The Inception Framework
• Dec 10 - Cloud Atlas: RedOctober APT
• Dec 10 - W32/Regin, Stage #1
• Dec 10 - W64/Regin, Stage #1
• Dec 10 - South Korea MBR Wiper
• Dec 12 - Vinself now with steganography
• Dec 12 - Bots, Machines, and the Matrix
• Dec 17 - Wiper Malware – A Detection Deep Dive
• Dec 18 - Malware Attack Targeting Syrian ISIS Critics
• Dec 19 - TA14-353A: Targeted Destructive Malware (wiper)
• Dec 21 - Operation Poisoned Helmand
• Dec 22 - Anunak: APT against financial institutions

2015

• Jan 11 - Hong Kong SWC attack
• Jan 12 - Skeleton Key Malware Analysis
• Jan 15 - Evolution of Agent.BTZ to ComRAT
• Jan 20 - Analysis of Project Cobra
• Jan 20 - Reversing the Inception APT malware
• Jan 22 - The Waterbug attack group
• Jan 22 - Scarab attackers Russian targets | IOCs
• Jan 22 - Regin's Hopscotch and Legspin
• Jan 27 - Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the "Qwerty" keylogger
• Jan 29 - Backdoor.Winnti attackers and Trojan.Skelky
• Jan 29 - Analysis of PlugX Variant - P2P PlugX
• Feb 02 - Behind the Syrian Conflict’s Digital Frontlines
• Feb 04 - Pawn Storm Update: iOS Espionage App Found