APT19
- ID
- G0073
- Associated names
- Codoso, C0d0so0, Codoso Team, Sunshop Group
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 1 Aug 2026
APT19 is a Chinese-based threat group that has targeted a variety of industries, including defense, finance, energy, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, high tech, education, manufacturing, and legal services. In 2017, a phishing campaign was used to target seven law and investment firms. [1] Some analysts track APT19 and Deep Panda as the same group, but it is unclear from open source information if the groups are the same. [2] [3] [4]
Techniques used (21)
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1027.010 Command Obfuscation
- T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1112 Modify Registry
- T1132.001 Standard Encoding
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1189 Drive-by Compromise
- T1204.002 Malicious File
- T1218.010 Regsvr32
- T1218.011 Rundll32
- T1543.003 Windows Service
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1564.003 Hidden Window
- T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
- T1574.001 DLL
- T1588.002 Tool
