← APTtrail graph.json

How the groups relate

201 relationships between 116 groups. A relationship means the sources have something in common — the same indicator, the same write-up, the same named tooling — not that the groups are one actor or work together.

Strongest relationships 201 total

Ordered by how much the evidence supports a claim: shared infrastructure first, then shared reporting, then tooling and techniques.

40 shown

Showing the 40 strongest of 201. All of them, with their evidence, are in graph.json.

One group's neighbourhood

Everything related to a single group, which is the readable unit here — the full graph is one component of 116 groups and would not be.

Most connected

Not a ranking of importance — a group is here because a lot has been published about it that overlaps with something else.

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How a relationship is decided

infrastructure — the same domain or address is attributed to both groups. The strongest signal here and a rare one: 268 of 154,910 values touch more than one group. Anything shared by eight or more groups is treated as hosting or a sinkhole and dropped.

reporting — the same write-up cites both. Corroborating, not conclusive; a survey naming a dozen actors links none of them, which is why the same eight-group cut applies.

software — shared named malware or tooling, after discarding anything commodity. Mimikatz, Cobalt Strike, PsExec and certutil appear under a quarter of all profiled groups; two actors both using one says nothing.

technique — overlap of published ATT&CK techniques as Jaccard, not a raw count. T1566.001 is attributed to 54 of 95 profiled groups. Only four pairs in the whole corpus clear the bar, and technique overlap reflects how much a group has been researched as much as what it does.

Attribution is inherited from Maltrail and MITRE ATT&CK, not independently assessed, and one actor can only relate to another through what has been published about both. Absence of a relationship is not evidence of anything.