Tonto Team has used a variety of credential dumping tools.7
group
Tonto Team G0131
- Created
- 5 May 2021
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Tonto Team · Earth Akhlut · BRONZE HUNTLEY · CactusPete · Karma Panda
Tonto Team is a suspected Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage threat group that has primarily targeted South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States since at least 2009; by 2020 they expanded operations to include other Asian as well as Eastern European countries. Tonto Team has targeted government, military, energy, mining, financial, education, healthcare, and technology organizations, including through the Heartbeat Campaign (2009-2012) and Operation Bitter Biscuit (2017).[1][2][3][4][5][6]
15
Techniques44th pct
10
Tactics59th pct
6
Tools & malware67th pct
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0131
Tonto Team has used keylogging tools in their operations.8
Tonto Team has used PowerShell to download additional payloads.9
Tonto Team has used Python-based tools for execution.10
Tonto Team has exploited CVE-2019-0803 and MS16-032 to escalate privileges.11
Tonto Team has used the ShowLocalGroupDetails command to identify administrator, user, and guest accounts on a compromised host.12
Standing G0131
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
Techniques1544th pct
44th percentile · 56% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics1059th pct
59th percentile · 59% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Tools & malware667th pct
67th percentile · 67% 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 / technique50medTop 7%
93rd percentile · 93% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique7med
Detection coverage G0131
925 distinct rules cover the 15 techniques recorded for this group. The 988 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 925 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 638 Sigma · 287 Splunk.
15 covered by at least one rule925 distinct rules in total
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