06/02/2023
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2023W06 Weekly report => 06/02 2K23 - 12/02 2K23 MalSpam campaigns  targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, FormBook, Remcos, 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 Feb. 06 to Feb. 112, 2023.


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


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

The week did not see the massive distribution of Malspam due to the spread of 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 99 campaigns this week, 12 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_03 16/01 22/01
Week_04 23/01 29/01
Week_05 30/01 05/02
Week_06 06/02 12/02


During the week, the highest peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday 07 February with 28 different campaigns. Tuesday 07 and Thursday 09 was found to be the peak for the Italy target with 4 campaigns, as is evidenced 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, 11 different families were detected:


The majority of the executable samples featured this week are MSILs (C#) covering 57.58% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 11.11%.
16.16% 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.
 
07/02/2023
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".
Ave_Maria
 spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

08/02/2023
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Shipments (GLS)".

09/02/2023
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Ave_Maria
 spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Shipments".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

10/02
/2023
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Orders".



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

 
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Check out the campaigns for the month of January/ February

 

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

30/01/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Jan. 30, 2023 to Feb. 05, 2023
23/01/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from January 23, 2023 to January 29, 2023
16/01/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from January 16, 2023 to January 22, 2023
09/01/2023 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 09, 2023 to January 15, 2023


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TG Soft's Anti-Malware Research Center
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