group

APT17 G0025

Created: 31 May 2017
Last modified: 31 July 2026
Aliases: APT17 · Deputy Dog

APT17 is a China-based threat group that has conducted network intrusions against U.S. government entities, the defense industry, law firms, information technology companies, mining companies, and non-government organizations. [1]

TechniquesBottom 8%

TacticBottom 6%

Tool or malwareBottom 23%

CampaignsNone recorded

Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.

APT17 MITRE reference G0025

Web Services T1583.006 ↗

APT17 has created profile pages in Microsoft TechNet that were used as C2 infrastructure.2

Resource Development2 detection rules

Establish Accounts T1585 ↗

APT17 has created and cultivated profile pages in Microsoft TechNet. To make profile pages appear more legitimate, APT17 has created biographical sections and posted in forum threads.3

Resource Developmentno detection rules

Standing G0025

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

Techniques2Bottom 8%

8th percentile · 92% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.

Tactic1Bottom 6%

6th percentile · 94% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.

Tool or malware1Bottom 23%

23rd percentile · 77% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tools and malware.

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 / technique1medBottom 6%

6th percentile · 94% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more detection rules per technique.

Tests / technique0medBottom 16%

16th percentile · 84% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more atomic tests per technique.

Data comps / technique1.5med65% tie · 12 values

65% of the population shares a single value across only 12 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.

Mitigations / technique1med43% tie · 11 values

43% of the population shares a single value across only 11 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.

5 of 8 axes carry an honest rank on this page. Coverage medians are taken across this group’s 2 Enterprise techniques.

Range

Technique Campaign use over its cumulative rule count.

Campaigns · 0Sigma rules (cumulative) · 1Splunk ESCU (cumulative) · 1

Standing G0025

Select	Title	Description	Category	Status	Event	OS	Product	MITRE ATT&CK	CVEs	Severity	Author	Created	Updated	ID	Refs
Splunk		This analytic identifies Snort signatures that have triggered only once in the past 7 days across all Cisco Secure Firewall IntrusionEvent logs. (...)	Hunting	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Resource Development Acquire Infrastructure Web Services Reconnaissance Phishing for Information	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-16	2026-05-13	e20313d2-7d63-4fcf-b2d9-d6e12c6c7bd7
		Detects when the email sending feature is enabled for an AWS account and the email address verificat (...)	Unsupported	unsupported	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Resource Development Acquire Infrastructure Web Services	-	medium	Janantha Marasinghe	2022-12-12	2023-03-24	60b84424-a724-4502-bd0d-cc676e1bc90e

Title

Description

APT17 G0025

APT17 MITRE reference G0025

Standing G0025

Reach

Coverage

APT17 MITRE reference G0025

Standing G0025

Reach

Coverage

APT17 detections G0025

APT17 detections G0025