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2022W25 Weekly report => 20/06 2K22 - 26/06 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, Emotet, Remcos
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's C.R.A.M concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from June 20 to June 26, 2022.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, constant those targeting Italian users.

Malspam sending, to spread the Emotet malware, continued throughout the week.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria and Remcos.

The blue bar indicates the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns written in Italian (targeting Italy).

 We monitored 114 campaigns this week, 7 of which used Italian as their language.



In order to understand how the various weeks are divided, below is a small table showing the breakdown of the periods considered:

Week
 from to
Week_22 30/05 05/06
Week_23 06/05 12/06
Week_24 13/06 19/06
Week_25 20/06 26/06


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Monday, June 20, with 24 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 3 campaigns regarding the Italy target was found on Thursday, June 23, as is highlighted by the graph below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 67.56% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 8.11%.
11.71% of the distributed samples are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

 In the picture below we can see the various types of languages with which malware is developed:


In the following graph we see the distribution of the various types of languages divided by day:

 
 In this graph you can see the malware families that were spread with target Italy (written in Italian) in the week:

 
The Italian campaigns analyzed by TG Soft's C.R.A.M. were grouped according to macro categories, obtained from the subject of the email message used for malware distribution (malspam). Below we see the subjects used in the various campaigns divided by day and type of malware.

20/06/2022
Ave_Maria - vspread through a campaign themed "Orders".

21/06/2022
Ave_Maria - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

22/06/2022
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Orders" e la seconda a tema "Payments".

23/06/2022
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns themed "Payments".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed"Purchases".


EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails to spread the Emotet malware continued throughout the week but with fewer unique hashes.
Malspam emails contain a ZIP file with password inside that contains an Excel file or a powershell command link.
Below we see the number of unique hashes for monitored attachments on different days of the week:


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Check out the May/June campaigns

 

We invite you to check out the May/June reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

13/06/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from June 13, 2022 to June 19, 2022
06/06/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from June 06, 2022 to June 12, 2022
30/05/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from May 30, 2022 to June 05, 2022
23/05/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from May 23, 2022 to May 29, 2022


C.R.A.M. 
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