sets, reps and weight on a cut, gain muscle while cutting?

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>borderline overweight (81kg/178lbs at 182cm, 21)
>very high body fat percentage (25-27%)
I'm basically what a skinnyfat guy would look like if he gained another 4kg/10lbs of pure fat, but it looks like I somehow have a small base of muscle mass under all the fat, but not much. I'm also a complete noob, haven't trained seriously for more than a couple of weeks in my entire life.

I know I need to eat under my tdee, eat enough protein and all that, but what am I looking at when it comes to resistance training? What kind of volume should I be doing? I'm seeing conflicting information all over the internet, but people generally say you need to do high intensity (weight), low reps and low sets when cutting to preserve or even increase strength (if you're a noob).

My problem is, what about adding some muscle mass while also cutting fat on say a 500kcal deficit? Keep in mind my body fat percentage is really high. I don't think I just want to "maintain" what little muscle I have, I want to gain some and I know it's possible because of noob gains so my question is:

Will doing high weight, low low rep training build more muscle than hypertrophy or at least closer to hypertrophy traning (for example 6-7 reps)?

I want to gain as much muscle through noob gains during my cut as possible. I don't care about strength as much for now, that's something I want to work on when I finish my cut. So what do I do, low reps high weight (and probably lower volume altogether) or a bit lower weight, higher reps (up to 8)?