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2022W06 Weekly report => 07/02 2K22 - 13/02 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, Emotet, FormBook, LokiBot, Remcos, sLoad, Ursnif
       
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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 February 7 to February 13, 2022

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, with those targeting Italian users also increasing sharply.
The sending of malspam to spread the Emotet malware, was present.

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

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 119 campaigns this week, 19 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
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Week_03 17/01 23/01
Week_04 24/01 30/01
Week_05 31/01 06/02
Week_06 07/01 13/02


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Monday 07 with 30 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 6 campaigns with regard to the Italy target was found on Feb. 08 and Feb. 10, as highlighted by the chart below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 73.95% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32 with 8.40%.
6.72% 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.

07/02/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
sLoad - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices.

08/02/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through three campaigns, the first themed "Orders", the second themed "Shipping", and the third themed "Payments".
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

09/02/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Ave_Maria - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

10/02/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
FormBook - spread through three campaigns, two themed "Orders" and one themed "Offers".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

11/02/2022
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

EMOTET
In the first part of the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails to spread the Emotet malware, continued.
Malspam emails contain either an Excel attachment inside or a ZIP file with a password that contains an Excel file.
Below we see the number of unique hashes for monitored attachments on different days of the week. As can be seen from the number of unique hashes, the mailing ended Thursday morning.


Find out if you are an Emotet target!
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With this service you can check for free if your email addresses/domains are involved or are targets of MalSpam by Emotet. More than 3300 IOCs of Emotet were made available through this platform in the past week. Advanced search features and the IOC feed are available by registering and activating the API service at the link:  HAVEiBeenEMOTET - API  
          

Check out the January/February campaigns

 

We invite you to check out the January/February reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy

31/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 31, 2021 to February 06, 2022
24/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 24, 2021 to January 30, 2022
17/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 17, 2021 to January 23, 2022
10/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 10, 2021 to January 16, 2022


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