UAT-9244 is a China-nexus APT actor, disclosed by Cisco Talos on March 5, 2026, assessed with high confidence as closely associated with Famous Sparrow and overlapping with Tropic Trooper. Active since 2024, it exclusively targets South American telecommunication providers, deploying three novel cross-platform malware families: TernDoor (Windows backdoor with DLL side-loading and evasion driver), PeerTime (Linux/embedded backdoor using BitTorrent for resilient C2), and BruteEntry (GoLang scanner turning edge devices into Operational Relay Boxes for SSH/Postgres/Tomcat brute-force). The campaign enables persistent access, remote command execution, lateral movement, and infrastructure relay via unified C2 with shared SSL certificates and domains like bloopencil.net.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | UAT-9244 |
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Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to UAT-9244. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
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Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy.