Aquatic Panda has attempted to harvest credentials through LSASS memory dumping.2
group
Aquatic Panda G0143
- Created
- 18 January 2022
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Alias
- Aquatic Panda
Aquatic Panda is a suspected China-based threat group with a dual mission of intelligence collection and industrial espionage. Active since at least May 2020, Aquatic Panda has primarily targeted entities in the telecommunications, technology, and government sectors.[1]
35
Techniques71st pct
13
TacticsTop 15%
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 G0143
Aquatic Panda captured local Windows security event log data from victim machines using the wevtutil utility to extract contents to an evtx output file.3
Aquatic Panda has attempted to discover services for third party EDR products.4
Aquatic Panda used remote scheduled tasks to install malicious software on victim systems during lateral movement actions.5
Aquatic Panda leveraged stolen credentials to move laterally via RDP in victim environments.6
Aquatic Panda used remote shares to enable lateral movement in victim environments.7
Standing G0143
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
Techniques3571st pct
71st percentile · 71% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics13Top 15%
85th percentile · 85% 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 / technique24med60th pct
60th percentile · 60% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique6med
Detection coverage G0143
1681 distinct rules cover the 35 techniques recorded for this group. The 1841 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 1681 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 1146 Sigma · 535 Splunk.
35 covered by at least one rule1681 distinct rules in total
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