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2022W18 Weekly report => 02/05 2K22 - 08/05 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBoook, Netwire, 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 May 02 to
May 08, 2022.

In the monitored week, global campaigns decreased compared to the previous week; those targeting Italian users also decreased.


During the week no malspam was detected to spread the Emotet malware.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, FormBook, Netwire, 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 55 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_15 11/04 17/04
Week_16 18/04 24/04
Week_17 25/04 01/05
Week_18 02/05 08/05


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Wednesday, May 4 with 16 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 3 campaigns, with regard to the Italy target, was found on Monday, May 2, and Wednesday, May 4, as is highlighted in the graph below:




The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 83.64% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32 with 10.90%.
1.82% 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

02/05/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
NetWire -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
sLoad -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

03/05/2022
FormBook -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

04/05/2022
Ursnif -
spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
FormBook -
spread through two campaigns, one themed "Orders" and one themed "various".



EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails for the spread of the Emotet malware, was not detected.

Check out the April/May campaigns

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

25/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 25, 2022 to May 01, 2022
18/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 18, 2022 to April 24, 2022
11/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 11, 2022 to April 17, 2022
04/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 04, 2022 to April 10, 2022


C.R.A.M. 
TG Soft's Anti-Malware Research Center
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