Status

Active

Distinct actor

Tracked as a cluster; no figure published

Named actor

INSUFFICIENT

First observed

3 Aug 2026

Last updated

3 Aug 2026

Motivation

Access and persistence; single operator versus sold builder deliberately unresolved

Note on UTA identifiers: "UTA" stands for Unattributed Threat Actor. UTA-2026-021 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 22-file toolkit built almost entirely from other people's tooling, with components publicly tied to three unrelated named actors, none of which is the operator. Named attribution is insufficient by refutation rather than by absence, and the designation is anchored on the infrastructure estate and a target-specific orchestrator.

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

91.197.98.188 (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

CloudSync RATParalell loaderSharp4WebCmd web shellcommercial RMM products

MITRE ATT&CK

54 techniques across 13 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.