Deep Panda

Introduction

Deep Panda is a suspected Chinese threat group known to target many industries, including government, defense, financial, and telecommunications. Alperovitch 2014 The intrusion into healthcare company Anthem has been attributed to Deep Panda. ThreatConnect Anthem This group is also known as Shell Crew, WebMasters, KungFu Kittens, and PinkPanther. RSA Shell Crew Deep Panda also appears to be known as Black Vine based on the attribution of both group names to the Anthem intrusion. Symantec Black Vine Some analysts track Deep Panda and APT19 as the same group, but it is unclear from open source information if the groups are the same. ICIT China’s Espionage Jul 2016

Activities and Tactics

Information pending cataloguing.

Notable Campaigns

Information pending cataloguing.

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)

• T1057 Process Discovery
• T1018 Remote System Discovery
• T1505.003 Web Shell
• T1027.005 Indicator Removal from Tools
• T1218.010 Regsvr32
• T1564.003 Hidden Window
• T1059.001 PowerShell
• T1546.008 Accessibility Features
• T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation
• T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares

ATT&CK technique IDs (denormalized)

• T1018
• T1021.002
• T1027.005
• T1047
• T1057
• T1059.001
• T1218.010
• T1505.003
• T1546.008
• T1564.003

Notable Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

No curated IOCs are currently published for this actor. This section will be updated when stable, attributable indicators are available.

Malware and Tools

MITRE ATT&CK Software

• Mivast (S0080) — malware
• Ping (S0097) — tool
• Net (S0039) — tool
• StreamEx (S0142) — malware
• Sakula (S0074) — malware
• Tasklist (S0057) — tool
• Derusbi (S0021) — malware

Attribution and Evidence

Information pending cataloguing.

References

[1] mitre-attack [8] Alperovitch 2014 Alperovitch, D. (2014, July 7). Deep in Thought: Chinese Targeting of National Security Think Tanks. Retrieved November 12, 2014. [9] Symantec Black Vine DiMaggio, J.. (2015, August 6). The Black Vine cyberespionage group. Retrieved January 26, 2016. [10] RSA Shell Crew RSA Incident Response. (2014, January). RSA Incident Response Emerging Threat Profile: Shell Crew. Retrieved January 14, 2016. [11] ICIT China’s Espionage Jul 2016 Scott, J. and Spaniel, D. (2016, July 28). ICIT Brief - China’s Espionage Dynasty: Economic Death by a Thousand Cuts. Retrieved June 7, 2018. [12] ThreatConnect Anthem ThreatConnect Research Team. (2015, February 27). The Anthem Hack: All Roads Lead to China. Retrieved January 26, 2016.