Earth Estries
Earth Estries is classified as other threat group.
- Type
- Other threat group
- Malware families
- 4
Trend Micro found that Earth Estries relies heavily on DLL sideloading to load various tools within its arsenal. Aside from the backdoors previously mentioned, this intrusion set also utilizes commonly used remote control tools like Cobalt Strike, PlugX, or Meterpreter stagers interchangeably in various attack stages. These tools come as encrypted payloads loaded by custom loader DLLs.
The group is associated with 4 malware families.
The group is associated with 4 malware families.
Malware families
- DracuLoader
- HemiGate
- MASOL
- SNAPPYBEE
Published reports on this actor:
- https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/h/earth-estries-targets-government-tech-for-cyberespionage.html
- https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/cyber-soft-power-chinas-continental-takeover/
Source: MISP Galaxy, Malpedia.
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