Elderwood has packed malware payloads before delivery to victims.4
group
Elderwood G0066
- Created
- 18 April 2018
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Elderwood · Elderwood Gang · Beijing Group · Sneaky Panda
Elderwood is a suspected Chinese cyber espionage group that was reportedly responsible for the 2009 Google intrusion known as Operation Aurora. [1] The group has targeted defense organizations, supply chain manufacturers, human rights and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and IT service providers. [2] [3]
9
Techniques30th pct
4
TacticsBottom 20%
9
Tools & malwareTop 19%
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0066
Elderwood has encrypted documents and malicious executables.5
The Ritsol backdoor trojan used by Elderwood can download files onto a compromised host from a remote location.6
Elderwood has delivered zero-day exploits and malware to victims by injecting malicious code into specific public Web pages visited by targets within a particular sector.789
Elderwood has used exploitation of endpoint software, including Microsoft Internet Explorer Adobe Flash vulnerabilities, to gain execution. They have also used zero-day exploits.10
Elderwood has leveraged multiple types of spearphishing in order to attempt to get a user to open links.1112
Standing G0066
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
Techniques930th pct
30th percentile · 70% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics4Bottom 20%
20th percentile · 80% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.
Tools & malware9Top 19%
81st percentile · 81% 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 / technique13med38th pct
38th percentile · 62% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique2med
Detection coverage G0066
302 distinct rules cover the 9 techniques recorded for this group. The 326 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 302 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 186 Sigma · 116 Splunk.
9 covered by at least one rule302 distinct rules in total
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