08/08/2022
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2022W32 Weekly report => 08/08 2K22 - 14/08 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, 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 Aug 08 to Aug 14, 2022.

In the monitored week, global campaigns declined sharply from the previous week; those targeting Italian users increased slightly

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, FormBook, ReflectiveLoader e 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 46 campaigns this week, 5 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:

Settimana
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Week_29 18/07 24/07
Week_30 25/07 31/07
Week_31 01/08 07/08
Week_32 08/08 14/08


During the week, the highest peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday, August 9, with 16 different campaigns. On Tuesday, August 9, the maximum peak of 3 campaigns was found for the Italy target, as is highligted by the chart below:




The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 69.57% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place is Delphi with 13.04%.
2.17% 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, extracted 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.

08/08/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

09/08/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

11/08/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".




 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 July/August campaigns.

 

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

01/08/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 01, 2022 to August 07, 2022
25/07/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 25, 2022 to July 31, 2022
18/07/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from July 18, 2022 to July 24, 2022
11/07/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from July 11, 2022 to July 17, 2022


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