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2023W28 Weekly report => 10/07 2K23 - 16/07 2K23 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, FormBook, LokiBot, Remcos
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from July 10 to July 16, 2023.

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

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

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 60 campaigns this week, 10 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_25 19/06 25/06
Week_26 26/06 02/07
Week_27 03/07 09/07
Week_28 10/07 16/07


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Wednesday, June 12, with 16 different campaigns. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on the same day with 5 campaigns, as is highlighted by the graph 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, 8 different families were detected:

The majority of the executable samples featured this week are MSILs (C#) covering 56.67% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 21.67%.
6.67% of the analyzed samples are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc.).

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, composed of 5 different families:
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

11/07/2023
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Ave_Maria - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

12/07/2023
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns themed "Various".
FormBook - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Payments" and the second themed "Orders".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

13/07/2023
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Various" and the second themed "Orders".

 
 
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 June/July campaigns

We invite you to check out the June/July 2023 reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

03/07/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 03, 2023 to July 09, 2023
26/06/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from June 26, 2023 to July 02, 2023
19/06/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from June 19, 2023 to June 25, 2023
12/06/2023 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from June 12, 2023 to June 18, 2023


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