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2022W36 Weekly report=> 05/09 2K22 - 11/09 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, NanoCore, QakBot, Vjw0rm
       
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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 Sept 5 to Sept 11, 2022.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased sharply from the previous week, with those targeting Italian users increasing sharply.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, NanoCore, QakBot and RAT Vjw0rm.

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 68 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_33 15/08 21/08
Week_34 22/08 28/08
Week_35 29/08 04/09
Week_36 05/09 11/09


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday, September 05, with 21 different campaigns. On Friday, September 09, the maximum peak of 3 campaigns was found for the Italy target, as is highlighted by the graph below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 69.12% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Scripts (JS, VBS, PS, etc.) with 14.71%.
1.47% 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.

05/09/2022
Vjw0rm - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".

06/09/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

07/09/2022
Ave_Maria - spread through a campaign themed "Pickups".

08/09/2022
NanoCore - spread through a campaign themed "Pickups".

09/09/2022
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns themed "Orders".
QakBot - spread through a campaign themed "Various".


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 August/September campaigns

 

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

29/08/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 29, 2022 to September 04, 2022
22/08/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 22, 2022 to August 28, 2022
15/08/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 15, 2022 to August 21, 2022
08/08/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from August 08, 2022 to August 14, 2022


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