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🇨🇳Aoqin Dragon

🇨🇳 Aoqin Dragon is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. CN-aligned. Primary motivation: Unknown. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 9 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

9Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[Aoqin Dragon](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1007) is a suspected Chinese cyber espionage threat group that has been active since at least 2013. [Aoqin Dragon](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1007) has primarily targeted government, education, and telecommunication organizations in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam. Security researchers noted a potential association between [Aoqin Dragon](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1007) and UNC94, based on malware, infrastructure, and targets.(Citation: SentinelOne Aoqin Dragon June 2022)

Known aliases

Aoqin Dragon

Top techniques

T1027.002 · Software Packing T1036 · Masquerading T1083 · File and Directory Discovery

All other tracked techniques

T1091 · Replication Through Removable Media T1203 · Exploitation for Client Execution T1204.002 · Malicious File T1570 · Lateral Tool Transfer T1587.001 · Malware T1588.002 · Tool

Detection use cases (14)

Aoqin Dragon USB-borne fake-document executable launch (Mongall/Heyoka dropper) AI · profile SΣ Aoqin Dragon Heyoka backdoor DNS-tunneling C2 AI · profile S Brand-Impersonation Domain Fetch Followed by User-Context Loader Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Developer package install spawning script-host with non-registry C2 within 5 minutes MITRE match Package Manager / Dev-Tool Auto-Execution Triggers Non-Registry Egress or Credential-Store Access MITRE match Package Manager Install Spawning Outbound Egress to Non-Registry Infrastructure Within 5 Minutes MITRE match Package manager lifecycle hook spawns network-fetching shell or runtime MITRE match Service-process parent spawns subprocess containing CLI-argument-injection tokens MITRE match Email attachment opened from external sender MITRE match Cisco NVM - Non-Network Binary Making Network Connection MITRE match Cisco Secure Firewall - Binary File Type Download MITRE match Cisco Secure Firewall - Blocked Connection MITRE match Cisco Secure Firewall - Connection to File Sharing Domain MITRE match Cisco Secure Firewall - Possibly Compromised Host MITRE match