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G0081: Tropic Trooper

Tropic Trooper is an unaffiliated threat group that has led targeted campaigns against targets in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Tropic Trooper focuses on targeting government, healthcare, transportation, and high-tech industries and has been active since 2011.[1][2][3]

EnterpriseG0081GroupObject v1.6Modified
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Glexia's Take · Automated analysis

Security context for executives and security teams

Automation confidenceMedium

Tropic Trooper is a long-running threat group in ATT&CK associated with targeted campaigns against government, healthcare, transportation, and high-tech organizations in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. For leaders, the practical issue is not the name of the group but the defensive pattern: ATT&CK links this group to remote access tools, backdoors, discovery activity, command-and-control over web and DNS protocols, automated exfiltration, and USB-based exfiltration relevant to air-gapped environments.

Executive priority

Prioritize this as a resilience and assurance use case where the organization operates in, supports, or resembles the sectors and regions described by ATT&CK, or where sensitive environments depend on segmentation or air gaps. Executives should ask whether security teams can prove visibility across Windows endpoints, command-line activity, removable media, DNS/web egress, local account use, and data movement. This object also supports audit and risk discussions around air-gapped operations, third-party/supply-chain exposure, and whether incident responders can investigate both connected and disconnected systems.

Technical view

ATT&CK does not provide a detection section for Tropic Trooper itself, so coverage should be validated through the linked software and techniques. Relationship context points to Windows-focused malware/tools including PoisonIvy, BITSAdmin, KeyBoy, YAHOYAH, USBferry, and ShadowPad, plus behaviors such as discovery, Windows command shell execution, DLL injection, masquerading, file deletion, local account abuse, web/DNS command-and-control, automated exfiltration, and exfiltration over USB. SOC and IR teams should map detections to these behaviors rather than relying on group-name alerts.

Likely telemetry

  • Endpoint process creation and command-line telemetry, especially cmd.exe and administrative utilities
  • Windows DLL load, process injection, and suspicious process access events where available
  • File creation, modification, deletion, and unusual executable placement or naming patterns
  • DNS query logs and web proxy/firewall egress logs for command-and-control analysis
  • BITS job creation and usage telemetry on Windows systems

Detection direction

  • Build behavior-based detections around the related ATT&CK techniques rather than expecting a single Tropic Trooper signature.
  • Validate visibility for discovery commands and enumeration of users, processes, files, network configuration, network connections, and services.
  • Tune web and DNS command-and-control analytics to reduce false positives from normal business traffic while retaining visibility into rare domains, unusual query patterns, and abnormal egress from sensitive hosts.
  • Review removable media monitoring for environments that rely on air gaps; USB-based exfiltration is specifically represented through the USBferry and Exfiltration over USB relationships.
  • Correlate local account use with unusual execution, discovery, or data movement because local accounts are listed as an abused access mechanism in the related techniques.

Mitigation priorities

  • Start with asset and data prioritization for government, healthcare, transportation, high-tech, military, or air-gapped environments when relevant to the organization.
  • Harden and monitor local accounts, especially administrative and shared local credentials; reduce reuse and ensure investigation-ready authentication logs.
  • Restrict and monitor removable media use in sensitive and segmented environments, with documented exceptions and evidence collection procedures.
  • Ensure endpoint controls capture command execution, suspicious DLL activity, file deletion, and unexpected tool use such as BITSAdmin.
  • Control egress through DNS and web gateways, and retain logs long enough to support incident response and threat hunting.
Additional notes and limits

The group object has no official ATT&CK detection text, no tactics listed on the group object itself, and no group-level platforms specified. The technical guidance is therefore derived from the supplied relationships to software and techniques. The related software is Windows-focused, but several related techniques list additional platforms; local validation should determine which apply in the environment.

This take does not assert current activity, attribution beyond the ATT&CK group description, customer exposure, or guaranteed detection coverage. External references are cited by ATT&CK, but their detailed contents were not used beyond the supplied fields. Organizations need their own telemetry, asset criticality, geography, sector exposure, and incident history to determine priority.

Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Tropic Trooper

Tropic Trooper is an unaffiliated threat group that has led targeted campaigns against targets in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Tropic Trooper focuses on targeting government, healthcare, transportation, and high-tech industries and has been active since 2011.[1][2][3]

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

How security teams should use this page

Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.

ATT&CK relationship table

Techniques used

This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.

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DomainIDNameRelationship / procedure
EnterpriseT1543.003Windows ServiceSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has installed a service pointing to a malicious DLL dropped to disk.[4]

EnterpriseT1070.004File DeletionSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has deleted dropper files on an infected system using command scripts.[3]

EnterpriseT1566.001Spearphishing AttachmentSub-technique

Tropic Trooper sent spearphishing emails that contained malicious Microsoft Office and fake installer file attachments.[2][5][6][7][3]

EnterpriseT1105Ingress Tool Transfer

Tropic Trooper has used a delivered trojan to download additional files.[3]

EnterpriseT1057Process Discovery

Tropic Trooper is capable of enumerating the running processes on the system using pslist.[2][3]

EnterpriseT1204.002Malicious FileSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has lured victims into executing malware via malicious e-mail attachments.[7]

EnterpriseT1573Encrypted Channel

Tropic Trooper has encrypted traffic with the C2 to prevent network detection.[3]

EnterpriseT1071.001Web ProtocolsSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has used HTTP in communication with the C2.[7][3]

EnterpriseT1564.001Hidden Files and DirectoriesSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has created a hidden directory under C:\ProgramData\Apple\Updates\ and C:\Users\Public\Documents\Flash\.[1][3]

EnterpriseT1221Template Injection

Tropic Trooper delivered malicious documents with the XLSX extension, typically used by OpenXML documents, but the file itself was actually an OLE (XLS) document.[2]

EnterpriseT1033System Owner/User Discovery

Tropic Trooper used letmein to scan for saved usernames on the target system.[5]

EnterpriseT1046Network Service Discovery

Tropic Trooper used pr and an openly available tool to scan for open ports on target systems.[5][3]

EnterpriseT1016System Network Configuration Discovery

Tropic Trooper has used scripts to collect the host's network topology.[3]

EnterpriseT1052.001Exfiltration over USBSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has exfiltrated data using USB storage devices.[3]

EnterpriseT1547.001Registry Run Keys / Startup FolderSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has created shortcuts in the Startup folder to establish persistence.[7][3]

EnterpriseT1505.003Web ShellSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has started a web service in the target host and wait for the adversary to connect, acting as a web shell.[3]

EnterpriseT1573.002Asymmetric CryptographySub-technique

Tropic Trooper has used SSL to connect to C2 servers.[1][3]

EnterpriseT1059.003Windows Command ShellSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has used Windows command scripts.[3]

EnterpriseT1106Native API

Tropic Trooper has used multiple Windows APIs including HttpInitialize, HttpCreateHttpHandle, and HttpAddUrl.[3]

EnterpriseT1574.001DLLSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has been known to side-load DLLs using a valid version of a Windows Address Book and Windows Defender executable with one of their tools.[9][7]

EnterpriseT1083File and Directory Discovery

Tropic Trooper has monitored files' modified time.[3]

EnterpriseT1027.013Encrypted/Encoded FileSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has encrypted configuration files.[1][3]

EnterpriseT1036.005Match Legitimate Resource Name or LocationSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has hidden payloads in Flash directories and fake installer files.[3]

EnterpriseT1132.001Standard EncodingSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has used base64 encoding to hide command strings delivered from the C2.[3]

EnterpriseT1078.003Local AccountsSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has used known administrator account credentials to execute the backdoor directly.[3]

EnterpriseT1680Local Storage Discovery

Tropic Trooper has detected a target system’s system volume information.[5][3]

EnterpriseT1547.004Winlogon Helper DLLSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has created the Registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell and sets the value to establish persistence.[2][3]

EnterpriseT1203Exploitation for Client Execution

Tropic Trooper has executed commands through Microsoft security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2012-0158.[1][2]

EnterpriseT1071.004DNSSub-technique

Tropic Trooper's backdoor has communicated to the C2 over the DNS protocol.[3]

EnterpriseT1119Automated Collection

Tropic Trooper has collected information automatically using the adversary's USBferry attack.[3]

EnterpriseT1055.001Dynamic-link Library InjectionSub-technique

Tropic Trooper has injected a DLL backdoor into dllhost.exe and svchost.exe.[1][3]

EnterpriseT1020Automated Exfiltration

Tropic Trooper has used a copy function to automatically exfiltrate sensitive data from air-gapped systems using USB storage.[3]

EnterpriseT1135Network Share Discovery

Tropic Trooper used netview to scan target systems for shared resources.[5]

EnterpriseT1082System Information Discovery

Tropic Trooper has detected a target system’s OS version.[5][3]

EnterpriseT1518.001Security Software DiscoverySub-technique

Tropic Trooper can search for anti-virus software running on the system.[2]

EnterpriseT1140Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

Tropic Trooper used shellcode with an XOR algorithm to decrypt a payload. Tropic Trooper also decrypted image files which contained a payload.[2][3]

EnterpriseT1049System Network Connections Discovery

Tropic Trooper has tested if the localhost network is available and other connection capability on an infected system using command scripts.[3]

EnterpriseT1027.003SteganographySub-technique

Tropic Trooper has used JPG files with encrypted payloads to mask their backdoor routines and evade detection.[3]

EnterpriseT1518Software Discovery

Tropic Trooper's backdoor could list the infected system's installed software.[3]

EnterpriseT1091Replication Through Removable Media

Tropic Trooper has attempted to transfer USBferry from an infected USB device by copying an Autorun function to the target machine.[3]

Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

MalwareEnterprise

S0452: USBferry

USBferry is an information stealing malware and has been used by Tropic Trooper in targeted attacks against Taiwanese and Philippine air-gapped military environments. USBferry shares an overlapping codebase with YAHOYAH, though it has several features which makes it a distinct piece of malware.[1]

Windows
MalwareEnterprise

S0596: ShadowPad

ShadowPad is a modular backdoor that was first identified in a supply chain compromise of the NetSarang software in mid-July 2017. The malware was originally thought to be exclusively used by APT41, but has since been observed to be used by various Chinese threat activity groups. [1][2][3]

Windows
MalwareEnterprise

S0387: KeyBoy

KeyBoy is malware that has been used in targeted campaigns against members of the Tibetan Parliament in 2016.[1][2]

Windows
Relationship explorer

All related ATT&CK context

uses · TechniqueT1543.003: Windows ServiceEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1070.004: File DeletionEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1566.001: Spearphishing AttachmentEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1105: Ingress Tool TransferEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1057: Process DiscoveryEnterpriseuses · MalwareS0452: USBferryEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1204.002: Malicious FileEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1573: Encrypted ChannelEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1071.001: Web ProtocolsEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1564.001: Hidden Files and DirectoriesEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1221: Template InjectionEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1033: System Owner/User DiscoveryEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1046: Network Service DiscoveryEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1016: System Network Configuration DiscoveryEnterpriseuses · MalwareS0596: ShadowPadEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1052.001: Exfiltration over USBEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1547.001: Registry Run Keys / Startup FolderEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1505.003: Web ShellEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1573.002: Asymmetric CryptographyEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1059.003: Windows Command ShellEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1106: Native APIEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1574.001: DLLEnterpriseuses · TechniqueT1083: File and Directory DiscoveryEnterpriseuses · MalwareS0012: PoisonIvyEnterprise
Change history

Object version and sync metadata

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ATT&CK release
19.1
Object version
1.6
Created
Modified
Raw hash
4dc7c4354ca737ea...
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(1)
ReleaseBundle importedObject versionModifiedStatusRaw hash
19.11.6Current bundle4dc7c4354ca7…
Raw source

Mirrored ATT&CK source object

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Source references

External references and citations

MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.

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