Confucius
- ID
- G0142
- Associated names
- Confucius APT
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 1 Aug 2026
Confucius is a cyber espionage group that has primarily targeted military personnel, high-profile personalities, business persons, and government organizations in South Asia since at least 2013. Security researchers have noted similarities between Confucius and Patchwork, particularly in their respective custom malware code and targets.[1][2][3]
Techniques used (19)
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1059.005 Visual Basic
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1119 Automated Collection
- T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
- T1204.001 Malicious Link
- T1204.002 Malicious File
- T1218.005 Mshta
- T1221 Template Injection
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
- T1583.006 Web Services
- T1680 Local Storage Discovery