03/04/2023
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2023W14 Weekly report => 03/04 2K23 - 09/04 2K23 MalSpam campaigns  targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: Adwind, FormBook
       
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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 April 03 to April 09, 2023.

In the week monitored, global campaigns declined from the previous week, with those targeting Italian users also declining.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: Adwind and FormBook.

The week did not see the massive distribution of Malspam to spread the Emotet malware.

 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 43 campaigns this week, 4 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_11 13/03 19/03
Week_12 20/03 26/03
Week_13 27/03 02/04
Week_14 03/04 09/04


During the week, the highest peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday, April 04 with 12 different campaigns. On Monday, April 03 and Tuesday, April 04, the peak was found for the Italy target with 2 campaigns per day, as is highlighted by the chart below:




In the following chart we see the malware families that were spread globally for each day in the week:


Instead, in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week, 8 different families were detected:

The majority of the executable samples featured this week are MSILs (C#) covering 48.84% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 23.25%.
13.95% of the samples are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc.).

In the picture below we can see the various types of languages used in malware development:

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

In this graph we 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 exploited for malware distribution (malspam). Below we see the subjects used in the various campaigns divided by day and type of malware.
 
03/04/2023
Adwind - spread through a campaign themed"Receipts".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".

04/04/2023
FormBook - spread through two campaigns themed  "Orders".


EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails for the spread of the Emotet malware, was not detected
 
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Check out the campaigns for the month of March/April

We invite you to check out the March and April 2023 reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:


27/03/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 27, 2023 to April 02, 2023
20/03/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 20, 2023 to March 26, 2023
13/03/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 13, 2023 to March 19, 2023
06/03/2023 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from March 06, 2023 to March 12, 2023


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