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THE HUNTER’S LEDGER
Threat Actor
UTA-2026-007
HijackLoader customer running a 15-month multi-vector phishing campaign into an AsyncRAT-class RAT
Status
Active
Distinct actor
LOW 58%
Named actor
INSUFFICIENT
First observed
6 May 2026
Last updated
11 Aug 2026
Operator language
Russian-speaking (HIGH)
Motivation
Financial crimeware
Note on UTA identifiers: "UTA" stands for Unattributed Threat Actor. UTA-2026-007 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

Seven delivery vectors staged from sanctioned bulletproof hosting and beaconing to a second blocklisted provider. The operator's own contribution sits at the bundle layer, and a misspelled cloud-storage path stable across every vector for over a year is the load-bearing fingerprint. Two named clusters were ruled out on payload lineage.

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

Sectors
Broad B2B (sales, legal, procurement, transport)

Broad opportunistic commodity targeting; no single industry narrowly targeted.

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.

path busket/ operator cloud-storage path typo, stable across every delivery vector
build-id Plowshare operator project codename in a rebuilt component PDB

Infrastructure and tooling

Primary host
62.60.237.100 (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
HijackLoaderPenguishRugmiAsyncRAT-class RATGoProxy

MITRE ATT&CK

40 techniques across 9 tactics, read from the mapping tables of the reports about this actor. Each technique links to where it is mapped.

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.