# PlushDaemon: threat group profile

> PlushDaemon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting about it is still limited. This free profile brings together what is known about it, so you can judge the risk to you. It lists the other names the group goes by and links to every public report behind it.

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## At a glance

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Attack techniques | 0 |
| Thought to operate from | China |
| Other names | 0 |
| Public reports | 1 |

## Who is PlushDaemon?

PlushDaemon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting about it is still limited.

### What public reporting says

> PlushDaemon is a China-aligned APT group that has conducted cyberespionage operations against targets in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, the United States, and New Zealand. They executed a supply chain attack on the South Korean VPN provider IPany, compromising its installer to deploy the SlowStepper backdoor, which features a toolkit of over 30 components. PlushDaemon primarily gains initial access by hijacking legitimate updates of Chinese applications and has also exploited vulnerabilities in legitimate web servers. Additionally, they have utilized the Visual Studio command line utility regcap.exe to side-load a malicious DLL named lregdll.dll.

## Public reports about PlushDaemon

- https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/plushdaemon-compromises-supply-chain-korean-vpn-service/

## Frequently asked questions

### Who is PlushDaemon?

PlushDaemon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting about it is still limited.

### Where is PlushDaemon thought to be based?

Public reporting places PlushDaemon as operating from China. Attribution is never certain: it rests on the tools, infrastructure and targets researchers have seen.

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