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It is losing fat and gaining muscle, but you don't have to change your diet for it to happen. Eating better makes it go quicker and easier, for sure. But in the absence of metabolic disorders your body will burn fat to get the energy it needs to build muscle. Your protein intake really doesn't need to be very high.
You'd also be at a calorie deficit any time you exercised if you're not supplementing the expenditure, and depending on the workout it can be a large deficit. I have HIIT workouts that can burn upwards of 800 kCal an hour.
The downside is that you will eventually plateau with this method, so if you're very overweight you'll need to change your diet at some point. But if you're not significantly overweight (like me this time around) converting ~15% of your body fat to muscle should be obtainable just through lifting.
The great part about building muscles before you go on a deficit is that your BMR will be decently higher, meaning you can eat more than you would otherwise since muscles require more calories than fat to exist.