Activity timeline
Daxin operators appears in 2 tracked threats between and ; the busiest month was 2026-10 with 1 report.
ATT&CK techniques observed
- T1014 Rootkit — Stealth (formerly Defense Evasion)observed in 2 of 2 tracked threats
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application — Initial Accessobserved in 2 of 2 tracked threats
- T1205 Traffic Signaling — Command and Controlobserved in 2 of 2 tracked threats
- T1547.004 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Winlogon Helper DLL — Persistenceobserved in 2 of 2 tracked threats
- T1553.002 Code Signing — Defense Impairmentobserved in 2 of 2 tracked threats
- T1036.005 Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location — Stealth (formerly Defense Evasion)observed in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1036.008 Masquerading: Masquerade File Type — Stealth (formerly Defense Evasion)observed in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1056 Input Capture — Credential Accessobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1056.001 Keylogging — Collectionobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1057 Process Discovery — Discoveryobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter — Executionobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1078.001 Valid Accounts: Default Accounts — Initial Accessobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1090.001 Proxy: Internal Proxy — Command and Controlobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy — Command and Controlobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
- T1113 Screen Capture — Collectionobserved in 1 of 2 tracked threats
Tracked threats
- CTO at NCSC Weekly Summary (week ending July 19, 2026): Russian FSB Center 16 router exploitation, Turla, Daxin/Stupig, GoldenEyeDog DigiCert compromise, CVE-2026-40639HIGH
- Daxin Returns: China-linked Backdoor.Daxin kernel rootkit and new Backdoor.Stupig (keyboard-layout DLL in winlogon.exe) found in TaiwanHIGH