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APT32 G0050

Created: 14 December 2017
Last modified: 31 July 2026
Aliases: APT32 · SeaLotus · OceanLotus · APT-C-00 · Canvas Cyclone · BISMUTH

APT32 is a suspected Vietnam-based threat group that has been active since at least 2014. The group has targeted multiple private sector industries as well as foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists with a strong focus on Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia. They have extensively used strategic web compromises to compromise victims.[1][2][3]

TechniquesTop 4%

TacticsTop 6%

Tools & malwareTop 12%

CampaignsNone recorded

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

Select	Description	Category	Status	Event	OS	Product	MITRE ATT&CK	CVEs	Severity	Author	Created	Updated	ID	Refs
	Detects potential DLL sideloading of DLLs that are known to be abused from suspicious locations	Generic	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter	-	high	X__Junior (Nextron Systems)	2023-07-11	—	799a5f48-0ac1-4e0f-9152-71d137d48c2a
Splunk	The following analytic detects attempts to dump the LSASS process memory, a common technique in credential dumping attacks. (...)	Generic	stable	process_access	windows	Sysmon	Credential Access OS Credential Dumping LSASS Memory	-	medium	Patrick Bareiss, Splunk	2019-12-11	2026-10-09	fb4c31b0-13e8-4155-8aa5-24de4b8d6717
	Detects file access requests to files ending with either the ".hive"/".reg" extension, usually associated with Windows Registry backups.	Hunting	test	file_access	windows	-	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	low	frack113	2023-09-15	2024-07-29	337a31c6-46c4-46be-886a-260d7aa78cac
	Detects access to ADMIN$ network share	Generic	test	network_connection	windows	WinEventLog Security	Lateral Movement Remote Services SMB/Windows Admin Shares	-	low	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2017-03-04	2024-01-16	098d7118-55bc-4912-a836-dc6483a8d150
	Detects file access requests to browser credential stores by uncommon processes. (...)	Hunting	test	file_access	windows	-	Credential Access OS Credential Dumping	-	low	frack113, X__Junior (Nextron Systems)	2022-04-09	2024-07-29	91cb43db-302a-47e3-b3c8-7ede481e27bf
	Detects file access requests to chromium based browser sensitive files by uncommon processes. (...)	Hunting	test	file_access	windows	-	Credential Access OS Credential Dumping	-	low	X__Junior (Nextron Systems)	2024-07-29	—	c5f37810-a85f-4186-81e9-33f23abb4141
	Detects file access requests to crypto currency files by uncommon processes. (...)	Generic	test	file_access	windows	-	Credential Access OS Credential Dumping	-	medium	X__Junior (Nextron Systems)	2024-07-29	—	f41b0311-44f9-44f0-816d-dd45e39d4bc8
	Detect set Notification_Suppress to 1 to disable the Windows security center notification	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	0c93308a-3f1b-40a9-b649-57ea1a1c1d63
	Detects usage of the "Get-AdComputer" to enumerate Computers or properties within Active Directory.	Generic	test	ps_script	windows	PowerShell	Discovery Account Discovery Domain Account Discovery Remote System Discovery	-	low	frack113	2022-03-17	2023-07-08	36bed6b2-e9a0-4fff-beeb-413a92b86138
Splunk	The following analytic detects suspicious registry modifications that implement auto admin logon by adding DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword values. (...)	Anomaly	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Credential Access Unsecured Credentials Credentials in Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-09-06	2026-05-13	d4a3eb62-0f1e-11ec-a971-acde48001122
	Detect set DisallowRun to 1 to prevent user running specific computer program	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	275641a5-a492-45e2-a817-7c81e9d9d3e9
	Detects usage of winget to add a new insecure (http) download source. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-04-17	—	81a0ecb5-0a41-4ba1-b2ba-c944eb92bfa2
	Detects usage of winget to add new additional download sources	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-04-17	—	05ebafc8-7aa2-4bcd-a269-2aec93f9e842
	Detects usage of winget to add new potentially suspicious download sources	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-04-17	2023-12-04	c15a46a0-07d4-4c87-b4b6-89207835a83b
	Detect remote login by Administrator user (depending on internal pattern).	Generic	test	authentication	windows	WinEventLog Security	Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Stealth Valid Accounts Default Accounts Domain Accounts Local Accounts	-	low	juju4	2017-10-29	2022-10-09	0f63e1ef-1eb9-4226-9d54-8927ca08520a
	Detects the deletion of the "Zone.Identifier" ADS. (...)	Hunting	test	file_delete	windows	Sysmon	Stealth Indicator Removal File Deletion	-	low	frack113	2023-09-04	—	7eac0a16-5832-4e81-865f-0268a6d19e4b
	Detects the deletion of the "Zone.Identifier" ADS by an uncommon process. (...)	Generic	test	file_delete	windows	Sysmon	Stealth Indicator Removal File Deletion	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-09-04	2025-07-04	3109530e-ab47-4cc6-a953-cac5ebcc93ae
Splunk	The following analytic detects the execution of network scanning utilities such as Advanced IP Scanner or Advanced Port Scanner. (...)	Anomaly	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike	Discovery Network Service Discovery Discovery Network Share Discovery	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-10-24	2026-05-13	9a4e50c7-5b62-4d52-93b4-f2b61332e9a5
	Detects the use of Advanced IP Scanner. (...)	Generic	test	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Discovery Network Service Discovery	-	medium	@ROxPinTeddy	2020-05-12	2022-11-29	fed85bf9-e075-4280-9159-fbe8a023d6fa
	Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic JavaScript	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom Ueltschi, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community	2017-11-10	2022-10-09	1fac1481-2dbc-48b2-9096-753c49b4ec71
	Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT	Generic	test	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic JavaScript	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom Ueltschi, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community	2017-11-10	2022-12-02	0bcfabcb-7929-47f4-93d6-b33fb67d34d1
	Detect enable rdp feature to allow specific user to rdp connect on the targeted machine	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	37b437cf-3fc5-4c8e-9c94-1d7c9aff842b
	Detects suspicious DACL modifications to allow access to a service from a suspicious trustee. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Privilege Escalation Create or Modify System Process Windows Service	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-02-28	2025-10-22	6c8fbee5-dee8-49bc-851d-c3142d02aa47
	Detects alternate PowerShell hosts potentially bypassing detections looking for powershell.exe	Generic	test	ps_module	windows	PowerShell	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell	-	medium	Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g	2019-08-11	2025-10-17	64e8e417-c19a-475a-8d19-98ea705394cc
	Detects alternate PowerShell hosts potentially bypassing detections looking for powershell.exe	Generic	test	pipe_created	windows	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell	-	medium	Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g, Tim Shelton	2019-09-12	2025-10-07	58cb02d5-78ce-4692-b3e1-dce850aae41a
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports APT malware. (...)	Generic	experimental	antivirus	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Remote Access Tools Remote Desktop Software	-	critical	Arnim Rupp (Nextron Systems)	2026-06-15	—	101a1877-2cf4-474d-abfd-7f6ac4788d1a
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports an exploitation framework. (...)	Generic	stable	antivirus	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Remote Access Tools Remote Desktop Software	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim Rupp	2018-09-09	2026-06-15	238527ad-3c2c-4e4f-a1f6-92fd63adb864
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports password dumpers and stealers. (...)	Generic	stable	antivirus	-	-	Credential Access OS Credential Dumping LSASS Memory Security Account Manager Credential Access Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim Rupp	2018-09-09	2026-06-15	78cc2dd2-7d20-4d32-93ff-057084c38b93
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a remote access tool. (...)	Generic	experimental	antivirus	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Remote Access Tools Remote Desktop Software	-	critical	Arnim Rupp (Nextron Systems)	2026-06-15	—	97233998-3838-4581-88c6-f1d19d3993fb
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a web shell. (...)	Generic	test	antivirus	-	-	Persistence Server Software Component Web Shell	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim Rupp	2018-09-09	2026-06-29	fdf135a2-9241-4f96-a114-bb404948f736
	Detects the suspicious file that is created from PoC code against Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2021-34527 (PrinterNightmare), CVE-2021-1675 .	Emerging	stable	antivirus	-	-	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	CVE-2021-1675 CVE-2021-34527	critical	Sittikorn S, Nuttakorn T, Tim Shelton	2021-07-01	2023-10-23	6fe1719e-ecdf-4caf-bffe-4f501cb0a561
	Detects the removal or uninstallation of an application via "Wmic.EXE".	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	medium	frack113	2022-01-28	2024-07-02	b53317a0-8acf-4fd1-8de8-a5401e776b96
	Detects an attempt to terminate a process via "wmic" with the "call terminate" flag. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-09-11	—	49d9671b-0a0a-4c09-8280-d215bfd30662
	Detects when AppLocker "Audit only" enforcement mode reports that an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App would have been blocked if AppLocker "Enforce rules" enforcement mode was enabled.	Generic	experimental	-	windows	AppLocker	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Python Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	heyyanu	2026-03-26	—	557e3bd3-7f21-495d-8d50-7c8bdfb8041c
	Detects when AppLocker prevents the execution of an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App from running.	Generic	test	-	windows	AppLocker	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Python Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Pushkarev Dmitry	2020-06-28	2025-12-03	401e5d00-b944-11ea-8f9a-00163ecd60ae
	Detects DNS queries made by "AppInstaller.EXE". (...)	Generic	test	dns	windows	Sysmon	Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer	-	medium	frack113	2021-11-24	2023-11-09	7cff77e1-9663-46a3-8260-17f2e1aa9d0a
	Detects an image load pattern as seen when a tool named PRIVATELOG is used and rarely observed under (...)	Emerging	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2021-09-07	2022-10-09	33a2d1dd-f3b0-40bd-8baf-7974468927cc
	Detects suspicious user agent strings used in APT malware in proxy logs	Generic	test	proxy	-	-	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol Web Protocols	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Markus Neis	2019-11-12	2024-02-15	6ec820f2-e963-4801-9127-d8b2dce4d31b
	Detects the execution of DLL side-loading malware used by threat group Emissary Panda aka APT27	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution, Stealth Hijack Execution Flow DLL	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2018-09-03	2023-03-09	9aa01d62-7667-4d3b-acb8-8cb5103e2014
	Detects indicators of APT 29 (Cozy Bear) phishing-campaign as reported by mandiant	Emerging	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Stealth System Binary Proxy Execution Rundll32	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), @41thexplorer	2018-11-20	2023-03-08	7453575c-a747-40b9-839b-125a0aae324b
	Detects indicators of APT 29 (Cozy Bear) phishing-campaign as reported by mandiant	Emerging	stable	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Stealth System Binary Proxy Execution Rundll32	-	critical	@41thexplorer	2018-11-20	2023-02-20	3a3f81ca-652c-482b-adeb-b1c804727f74
	This method detects malicious services mentioned in APT29 report by FireEye. (...)	Unsupported	unsupported	process_creation	windows	WinEventLog System	Persistence, Privilege Escalation Create or Modify System Process Windows Service	-	high	Thomas Patzke	2017-11-01	2022-03-21	c069f460-2b87-4010-8dcf-e45bab362624
	Detects APT31 Judgement Panda activity as described in the Crowdstrike 2019 Global Threat Report	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Collection Archive Collected Data Archive via Utility Credential Access OS Credential Dumping LSASS Memory	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2019-02-21	2023-03-10	03e2746e-2b31-42f1-ab7a-eb39365b2422
	Detects suspicious user agent string of APT40 Dropbox tool	Emerging	test	proxy	-	-	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol Web Protocols Exfiltration Exfiltration Over Web Service Exfiltration to Cloud Storage	-	high	Thomas Patzke	2019-11-12	2023-05-18	5ba715b6-71b7-44fd-8245-f66893e81b3d
	Detects execution of GfxDownloadWrapper.exe with a URL as an argument to download file.	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer	-	medium	Victor Sergeev, oscd.community	2020-10-09	2023-10-18	eee00933-a761-4cd0-be70-c42fe91731e7
	The .SettingContent-ms file type was introduced in Windows 10 and allows a user to create "shortcuts" to various Windows 10 setting pages. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Attachment Execution User Execution	-	medium	Sreeman	2020-03-13	2022-04-14	24de4f3b-804c-4165-b442-5a06a2302c7e
	Detects potential DLL sideloading activity via the Aruba Networks Virtual Intranet Access "arubanets (...)	Generic	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Execution, Stealth Hijack Execution Flow DLL	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-01-22	2023-03-15	90ae0469-0cee-4509-b67f-e5efcef040f7
	Detects spawning of suspicious child processes by Atlassian Confluence server which may indicate suc (...)	Emerging	test	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Initial Access Exploit Public-Facing Application	CVE-2022-26134	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2022-06-03	—	7fb14105-530e-4e2e-8cfb-99f7d8700b66
	Detects creation of persistence artifacts placed by Atomic MacOS Stealer in macOS systems. (...)	Emerging	experimental	file_event	macos	-	Persistence, Privilege Escalation Create or Modify System Process Launch Daemon Stealth Hide Artifacts Hidden Files and Directories	-	high	Jason Phang Vern - Onn, Robbin Ooi Zhen Heng (Gen Digital)	2025-11-22	—	e710a880-1f18-4417-b6a0-b5afdf7e3023
Splunk	The following analytic detects the execution of tools commonly exploited by cybercriminals, such as those used for unauthorized access, network scanning, privilege escalation, password dumping or data exfiltration. (...)	Generic	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike · Cisco NVM · Cisco	Reconnaissance Active Scanning Stealth Masquerading Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location Credential Access OS Credential Dumping	-	medium	Bhavin Patel, Splunk, sventec, Github Community	2021-07-12	2026-09-22	a51bfe1a-94f0-48cc-b4e4-16a110145893	-

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APT32 G0050

APT32 G0050

APT32 MITRE reference G0050

APT32 MITRE reference G0050

Standing G0050

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APT32 detections G0050