UAC-0149
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:15:10
Targeted industries: defense-and-aerospace
Targeted regions: country_code:ua
Context
UAC-0149 is a threat actor targeting the Armed Forces of Ukraine with COOKBOX malware. They use obfuscation techniques like character encoding and base64 encoding to evade detection. The group leverages dynamic DNS services and Cloudflare Workers for their C2 infrastructure.
Reports & references
- socprime.com — Uac 0149 Attack Detection Hackers Launch A Targeted Attack Against The Armed Forces Of Ukraine As Cert Ua Reports (report)
- CERT-UA — 6277849 (report)