APT5 G1023
Also known as Mulberry Typhoon, MANGANESE, BRONZE FLEETWOOD, Keyhole Panda, UNC2630.
APT5 is a China-based espionage actor that has been active since at least 2007 primarily targeting the telecommunications, aerospace, and defense industries throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. APT5 has displayed advanced tradecraft and significant interest in compromising networking devices and their underlying software including through the use of zero-day exploits.
Documented targeting: Defense, Telecommunications, Aerospace
Methodology
Relevance is a match on your industry sector and technology stack against the MITRE ATT&CK v19.1 group graph (174 groups, 821 software families, 56 campaigns). It is computed deterministically from that data, with no language model in the request path. It is a relevance match, not threat-intelligence probability data: it tells you which documented actors and techniques are worth emulating for an org like yours, not a forecast that any specific group will act.
TurboPentest can autonomously exercise 3 of 32 of this actor's documented techniques today (9%). 4 are out of scope for automated testing (social engineering, denial of service, physical).
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These counts are computed from the vendored MITRE ATT&CK graph and the published coverage map, and are reproducible from source.
In-scope techniques to emphasize
Known software
Mimikatz, Skeleton Key, PoisonIvy, gh0st RAT, Net, Tasklist, netstat, PcShare, SLOWPULSE, PULSECHECK, PACEMAKER, SLIGHTPULSE, RAPIDPULSE.
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Launch this pentestFrequently asked questions
Who is APT5 (G1023)?
APT5 is a China-based espionage actor that has been active since at least 2007 primarily targeting the telecommunications, aerospace, and defense industries throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. APT5 has displayed advanced tradecraft and significant interest in compromising networking devices and their underlying software including through the use of zero-day exploits.
What sectors does APT5 target?
Based on MITRE ATT&CK, APT5 has been observed targeting Defense, Telecommunications, Aerospace.
Can TurboPentest test for APT5?
TurboPentest can autonomously exercise 3 of 32 of this actor's documented techniques today. 23 more need internal or assumed-breach access (the Adversarial-Depth tier), and the rest are out of scope for automated testing.
What does it cost to emulate APT5?
An Audit-Ready pentest starts at $99 per target. If it surfaces zero actionable findings, your next pentest is free.
Reviewed by
Michel Chamberland, Founder & CEO of IntegSec. CISSP, OSCP, OSCE, with 20+ years in offensive security, alumni of IBM X-Force Red and Trustwave SpiderLabs.
Last reviewed July 30, 2026.