20/03/2023
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2023W12 Weekly report => 20/03 2K23 - 26/03 2K23 MalSpam campaigns  targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: Adwind, AgentTesla, FormBook, LokiBot, Mekotio, QakBot, XWormRAT, Ursnif
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's C.R.A.M concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below  the the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from March 20 to March 26, 2023.

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

The week is characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: Adwind, AgentTesla, FormBook, LokiBot, Mekotio, QakBot, XWormRAT and Ursnif.

Massive MalSpam distribution of the Emotet malware continued during the week. Emotet resumed MalSpam operations the previous week after a hiatus of about 4 months. The full disclosure is available at the link: Emotet is back!

 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 64 campaigns this week, 31 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_09 27/02 05/03
Week_10 06/03 12/03
Week_11 13/03 19/03
Week_12 20/03 26/03


During the week, the peak in campaigns was found on Wednesday, March 22 with 16 different campaigns. The same day and the following day saw the peak for the Italy target with 8 campaigns per day, 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 34.38% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 16.06%.
23.44% 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.
 
20/03/2023
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Deliveries".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

21/03/2023
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Emotet - spread through two campaigns themed "Various / Reply-Chain".
FormBook - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Payments" and the second themed "Orders".
Ursnif - spread through two campaigns, the first themed"Revenue Agency" and the second themed"GLS Courier".

22/03/2023
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Emotet - veicolato tramite tre campagne a tema "Varie / Reply-Chain".
Mekotio - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
QakBot - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Quotes" and the second themed "Various".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

23/03/2023
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Emotet - spread through a campaign themed "Various / Reply-Chain".
Mekotio - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
Adwind - spread through a campaign themed "Ordini".
QakBot - spread through a campaign themed "Various".
Ursnif - spread through three campaigns, the first themed "Revenue Agency",  the second themed "GLS Courier" and the third themed "Payments".

24/03/2023
Emotet - spread through a campaign themed"Various / Reply-Chain".
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Mekotio - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
Ursnif- spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".



EMOTET
 The massive sending of MalSpam emails for spreading the Emotet malware continued in the week just passed. The full disclosure on the analysis of new MalSpam campaigns to spread Emotet is available at the link: Emotet is back!
Malspam emails contain either a Word attachment or a OneNote attachment (extension .one) inside. Below we see the number of campaigns monitored on different days of the week:
 
In the next graph we see the number of Malspam emails from Emotet analyzed on different days of the week, for a total that is almost 300K analyzed emails:

 
Find out if you are an Emotet target!
TG Soft, as reported in the informative "HAVEiBeenEMOTET portal to find out whether a mailbox has been used in malspam campaigns to spread EMOTET " has provided and maintained for over a year the HAVEiBeenEMOTET service, which is useful to check if your email addresses or domains are targeted by Emotet.
With this service you can check for free if your email addresses/domains are involved or are targets of MalSpam by Emotet.
Advanced search features and the IOC feed are available by registering and activating the API service at the link: HAVEiBeenEMOTET - API

 

Check out the campaigns for the month of February/March

 

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


13/03/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 13, 2023 to March 19, 2023
06/03/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 06, 2023 to March 12, 2023
27/02/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from February 27, 2023 to March 05, 2023
20/02/2023 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from February 20, 2023 to February 26, 2023


C.R.A.M. 
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