GopherWhisper
Suspected sponsor: China0
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Profile
GopherWhisper is a China-aligned APT that routes C2 traffic through legitimate enterprise platforms like Slack, Discord, and Microsoft 365 Outlook to evade detection. Its toolkit includes the LaxGopher backdoor for Slack, RatGopher for Discord, and CompactGopher for data exfiltration via file.io. The group employs DLL side-loading via JabGopher and uses raw OpenSSL socket C2 on port 443 with the SSLORDoor backdoor. GopherWhisper has targeted Mongolian government entities and is assessed to have additional unidentified victims in Central Asia.
ATT&CK techniques
MITRE ATT&CK has no technique mapping for this actor.
Incidents attributed
- No incident in the register is attributed to this actor.
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Targets
No victim countries in the sources.
Relevance to the EU
EU relevance: Low
No EU member state among its known victims and no overlap with EU projects
No EU cooperation projects recorded in its target countries.
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