group
Confucius G0142
- Created
- 26 December 2021
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Confucius · Confucius APT
Confucius is a cyber espionage group that has primarily targeted military personnel, high-profile personalities, business persons, and government organizations in South Asia since at least 2013. Security researchers have noted similarities between Confucius and Patchwork, particularly in their respective custom malware code and targets.[1][2][3]
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0142
Confucius has created scheduled tasks to maintain persistence on a compromised host.5
Confucius has used PowerShell to execute malicious files and payloads.6
Confucius has used a file stealer that checks the Document, Downloads, Desktop, and Picture folders for documents and images with specific extensions.9
Standing G0142
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
52nd percentile · 52% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
59th percentile · 59% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
23rd percentile · 77% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tools and malware.
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
76th percentile · 76% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Detection coverage G0142
854 distinct rules cover the 19 techniques recorded for this group. The 934 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 854 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 604 Sigma · 250 Splunk.
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