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SPIVY

Also known asSPIVY

SPIVY is a threat cluster label used for spear-phishing activity observed in March and April 2016 targeting organizations in Hong Kong. The activity used emails carrying exploits for CVE-2015-2545, a Microsoft Office EPS parsing vulnerability, and employed a new variant of PoisonIvy, from which the name SPIVY is derived. Based on the provided content, SPIVY is associated with targeted email delivery and PoisonIvy malware use. No additional high-confidence attribution, nation-state linkage, sub-groups, or alternate aliases beyond "spivy" are directly provided in the source content.

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Associated malware families

1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.

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Poison IvyIn March and April 2016, a series of emails laced with an exploit for CVE-2015-2545 were detected... they used a new variant of a widely available backdoor known as PoisonIvy (from which the name of the group, SPIVY, is derived).1Mar 18, 2026
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Associated vulnerabilities

1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.

CVE-2015-2545Microsoft Office Malformed EPS File VulnerabilityIn the wildEvidence1

CVE-2015-2545 is a vulnerability discovered in 2015 and corrected with Microsoft’s update MS15-099... enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code using a specially crafted EPS image file... exploited in the wild in August 2015... used in targeted attack by the Platinum group.

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