10/10/2022
09:29

2022W41 Weekly report => 10/10 2K22 - 16/10 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, FormBook, IcedID, Remcos, sLoad
       
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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 Oct 10 to Oct 16, 2022.


In the monitored week, global campaigns decreased from the previous week, with those targeting Italian users also down by one.


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

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, 14 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_38 19/09 25/09
Week_39 26/09 02/10
Week_40 03/10 09/10
Week_41 10/10 16/10


During the week the highest peak of campaigns was found on Monday, October 10 with 16 different campaigns. Monday, Oct. 10 and Tuesday, Oct. 11 tied for the highest peak of 5 campaigns for the Italy target, as is evidenced by the chart below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 62.07% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 24.14%.
Only 1.72% 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

10/10/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook -
spread through a campaign themed "Reservations".
IcedID -
spread through a campaign themed "Various".
Remcos -
spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

11/10
/2022
Ave_Maria -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook 
spread through a campaign themed, la prima a tema "Orderse la seconda a tema "Payments".
IcedID -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
sLoad -
spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

12/10/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Offers".

13/10/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Various".
FormBook 
-
spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

16/10/2022
FormBook -
spread through a campaign themed "Reservations".


MBR KILLER of Italian origin

In the past week, TG Soft's C.R.A.M. examined an MBR Killer of probable Italian origin.

The malware overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the infected PC's disk, so that on the next reboot the Operating System will no longer be loaded but will be shown the message (see image), 
"Pensavi Fixasse. Pensavo fossi più intelligente Nfire, Beh comunque è stato bello fartelo credere Comunque io sono Nicolas Franco colui che ha voluto vendetta dopo che il suo virus non è stato spostato sul deskto" ("You thought it fixed. I thought you were smarter Nfire, Well anyway it was nice to make you believe it. Anyway I am Nicolas Franco the one who wanted revenge after his virus was not moved to the deskto.")

The message contains some non-printable characters because of the charset, and is addressed, with mocking words, most likely to the youtuber "Nfire".


The sample was compiled on 09/10/2022, and a few seconds after compilation, it was uploaded to VirusTotal from an Italian IP address. Most likely it was the author of the malware himself who uploaded it to check for possible interception by AntiViruses.


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 September/October campaigns

 

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

03/10/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 03, 2022 to October 09, 2022
26/09/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 26, 2022 to October 02, 2022
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



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