Earth Baxia
Earth Baxia is a threat actor opearting out of China, targeting government organizations in Taiwan and potentially across the APAC region, using spear-phishing emails and exploiting the GeoServer vulnerability CVE-2024-36401 for remote code execution, deploying customized Cobalt Strike components with altered signatures, leveraging GrimResource and AppDomainManager injection techniques to deliver additional payloads, and utilizing a new backdoor named EAGLEDOOR for multi-protocol communication and payload delivery.
CVEs in recent coverage
No CVEs named alongside this actor in the last 90 days.
Recent victims
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Recent activity
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References
- https://www.tgsoft.it/news/news_archivio.asp?id=1568
- https://jp.security.ntt/tech_blog/appdomainmanager-injection
- https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/i/earth-baxia-spear-phishing-and-geoserver-exploit.html
- https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/24/i/earth-baxia-uses-spear-phishing-and-geoserver-exploit-to-target-apac/IOCs%20-%20Earth%20Baxia%20Uses%20Spear-Phishing%20and%20GeoServer%20Exploit%20to%20Target%20APAC.txt
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