Droppers used by Putter Panda use RC4 or a 16-byte XOR key consisting of the bytes 0xA0 – 0xAF to obfuscate payloads.2
group
Putter Panda G0024
- Created
- 31 May 2017
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Putter Panda · APT2 · MSUpdater
Putter Panda is a Chinese threat group that has been attributed to Unit 61486 of the 12th Bureau of the PLA’s 3rd General Staff Department (GSD). [1]
4
TechniquesBottom 13%
4
TacticsBottom 20%
4
Tools & malware55th pct
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0024
An executable dropped onto victims by Putter Panda aims to inject the specified DLL into a process that would normally be accessing the network, including Outlook Express (msinm.exe), Outlook (outlook.exe), Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe), and Firefox (firefox.exe).3
A dropper used by Putter Panda installs itself into the ASEP Registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run with a value named McUpdate.4
Malware used by Putter Panda attempts to terminate processes corresponding to two components of Sophos Anti-Virus (SAVAdminService.exe and SavService.exe).5
Standing G0024
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this group touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 176 ATT&CK groups only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques4Bottom 13%
13th percentile · 87% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics4Bottom 20%
20th percentile · 80% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.
Tools & malware455th pct
55th percentile · 55% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many tools and malware or fewer.
Campaigns089% tie · 4 values
89% of the population shares a single value across only 4 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique29medTop 24%
76th percentile · 76% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique11.5med
Detection coverage G0024
346 distinct rules cover the 4 techniques recorded for this group. The 348 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 346 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 212 Sigma · 134 Splunk.
4 covered by at least one rule346 distinct rules in total
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