Dropping Elephant (also known as Chinastrats and Patchwork is a relatively new threat actor targeting a variety of high profile diplomatic and economic targets. Its victims are all involved with Chinas foreign relations in some way, and are generally caught through spear-phishing or watering hole attacks. The actor created a website that downloads genuine news articles from other websites. If a website visitor wants to view the whole article they would need to download a. PowerPoint document, but also asks the visitor to download malicious artifact. The two main infection vectors are supported by other approaches.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/the-dropping-elephant-actor/75328/