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2022W39 Weekly report => 26/09 2K22 - 02/10 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, FormBook, IcedID
       
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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 26 to Oct 02, 2022.


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


The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, FormBook and l'IcedID.

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 95 campaigns this week, 28 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_36 05/08 11/09
Week_37 12/09 18/09
Week_38 19/09 25/09
Week_39 26/09 02/10


During the week the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Thursday, September 29 with 25 different campaigns. On Tuesday, September 27, the maximum peak of 7 campaigns was found for the Italy target, as is highlighted by the chart below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 65.27% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 17.89%.
2.11% 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.

26/09/2022
Ave_Maria -
spread through a campaign themed "Various".
FormBook - spread through three campaigns, the first themed "Orders",
the second themed  "Various" and the third themed "Documents".

27/09/2022
FormBook -
spread through six campaigns, the first themed"Orders", the second themed "Shipping", the third themed "Reservations", the fourth themed "Payments", the fifth themed "Quotes" and the sixth themed "Pickups".
IcedID -
spread through a campaign themed "Various".

28/09/2022
FormBook -
spread through six campaigns, the first themed "Orders", the second themed "Shipping", the third, fourth and fifth themed"Payments".
IcedID -
spread through a campaign themed "Various".

29/09/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook -
spread through three campaigns, the first themed  "Shipping", the second themed  "Payments" and the third themed "Various".
IcedID -
spread through a campaign themed "Communication".

30/09/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Ave_Maria -
spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
FormBook -
spread through four campaigns, the first themed "Reservations", the second themed "Various", the third themed "Payments" and the fourth themed "Invoices".


EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails for the spread of the Emotet malware, was not detected.
 
Find out if you are an Emotet target! TG Soft, as reported in the information "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 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:

19/09/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 19, 2022 to September 25, 2022
12/09/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 12, 2022 to September 18, 2022
05/09/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 05, 2022 to September 11, 2022
29/08/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from August 29, 2022 to September 04, 2022


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