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Aoqin Dragon threat group

Aoqin Dragon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting links it to 9 attack techniques, and to attacks on government, education and telecommunications organisations, with 5 countries and victims named. This free profile shows how it works and who it targets, so you can judge the risk to you.

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Attack techniques
9
Countries and victims named
5
Thought to operate from
China
Other names
1
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is Aoqin Dragon?

Aoqin Dragon has 1 other name 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

UNC94

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

What public reporting says

SentinelLabs has uncovered a cluster of activity beginning at least as far back as 2013 and continuing to the present day, primarily targeting organizations in Southeast Asia and Australia. They assess that the threat actor's primary focus is espionage and relates to targets in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam. We track this activity as 'Aoqin Dragon'. The threat actor has a history of using document lures with pornographic themes to infect users and makes heavy use of USB shortcut techniques to spread the malware and infect additional targets. Attacks attributable to Aoqin Dragon typically drop one of two backdoors, Mongall and a modified version of the open source Heyoka project.

Public reports about Aoqin Dragon (2)

How it works

How does Aoqin Dragon attack? Stage by stage.

Each technique is a known way attackers research, get in, stay hidden or do damage. Here are the 9 linked to Aoqin Dragon, 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 5 more specific variations of them, called sub-techniques.

Stage 2 of 15

Preparation

Setting up accounts, servers and tools to use in the attack.

2 techniques
  • T1587Develop Capabilities
  • T1588Obtain Capabilities
Targets

Who does Aoqin Dragon go after?

The sectors and places named in public reporting about this group. If yours is on the list, it is worth knowing how they work and which flaws they use.

Sectors (3)

GovernmentEducationTelecommunications
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Countries and victims named (5)

  1. 01Australia
  2. 02Cambodia
  3. 03Hong Kong
  4. 04Singapore
  5. 05Vietnam
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Aoqin Dragon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting links it to 9 attack techniques, and to attacks on government, education and telecommunications organisations, with 5 countries and victims named.

Public reporting places Aoqin Dragon as operating from China. Attribution is never certain: it rests on the tools, infrastructure and targets researchers have seen.

In public reporting, sectors named include government, education and telecommunications, and 5 countries and victims are named, including Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Public reporting links Aoqin Dragon to 9 attack techniques. Most of them are about preparing tools and infrastructure, running code and hiding.

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