Status

Active

Distinct actor

Tracked as a cluster; no figure published

Named actor

INSUFFICIENT

First observed

30 Apr 2026

Last updated

12 Aug 2026

Motivation

Cohort alignment with ransomware affiliate tradecraft, a population estimate only

Note on UTA identifiers: "UTA" stands for Unattributed Threat Actor. UTA-2026-006 is a tracking label The Hunters Ledger assigns to an actor I have observed but cannot yet link to a publicly named threat group. Other vendors and feeds will not use this label; it is specific to this publication. If later evidence ties the activity to a named actor, I will retire the label and update the report.

Summary

A complete AdaptixC2 operator toolkit covering the full intrusion kill chain, exposed with its team server, C2 and staging co-located on one Uzbekistan-hosted IP. A Linux build fingerprint, recovered listener configuration and a matched loader pair make the operator trackable; two APT candidates were ruled out on tradecraft.

The confidence levels above are the published report's figures. Every claim on this page is a summary of the linked reports, which remain the record.

Targeting

Targeting is given as region and sector, drawn from the reports. Victim names are deliberately not published here or in the reports.

Reports

Actor identifiers

Artifacts this operator chose or created: handles, channels, operator brands and domains, wallets and the like. Each is printed in a report linked above; the full indicator set, with its caveats, is in each report's IOC feed.

Infrastructure and tooling

Primary host

45.130.148.125 (the operator-controlled host the assigning report is named for; the full indicator set, with its caveats, is in each report's IOC feed)

Tooling

AdaptixC2SharpHoundRubeusMimikatzLigolo-ngchisel

MITRE ATT&CK

39 techniques across 10 tactics, read from the mapping tables of the reports about this actor. Each technique links to where it is mapped.

Related designations

• UTA-2026-004: A generic filename convention overlap only; assessed LOW, different frameworks.

Actor profiles and the reports behind them are © Joseph, The Hunter's Ledger, licensed CC BY 4.0: free to use, including commercially, with attribution. All tracked actors.