UAC-0063 – D E C E I V E R . I O

Deceive, Detect, Engage

Double-Tap Campaign by UAC-0063

The threat actor is conducting a spearphishing campaign to deliver malicious attachments, maintain persistence, and establish command and control.

Engage Report: Double-Tap Campaign – Espionage in Central Asia

A malicious macro in the initial Word document creates a second blank document and weaponizes it with another malicious macro.
The second macro creates a scheduled task named “SettingsService Dispatch” using RegisterTaskDefinition.
This task executes an HTA file containing the HATVIBE backdoor every four minutes using mshta.exe.