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2024W29 Weekly report => 15/07 2K24 - 21/07 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, LokiBot, Remcos, SnakeLogger
       
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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 15 to July 21, 2024.

In the week monitored, both global campaigns and Italian written campaigns increased compared to the previous week.


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

The blue bar indicates the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns written in Italian (and targeting Italy).


We monitored 50 campaigns during the week, 7 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_26 24/06 30/06
Week_27 01/07 07/07
Week_28 08/07 14/07
Week_29 15/07 21/07


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday, July 15 and Tuesday, July 16 with 14 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on Thursday, July 18 with 3 campaigns per day, as highlighted by the graph below:




In the following chart we see the malware families spread globally for each day in the week:



Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week 7 different families were detected:



The featured samples this week are MSIL (C#) executibles covering 42% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second and third place are AutoIT executibles with 26% and WIN32 executable files with 20%.
The 8% of distributed samples are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).



In the picture below we can see the various types of language used to develop malware:


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 spread during the week with target Italy (written in Italian) and 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

15/07/2024
SnakeLogger spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

16/07/2024
LokiBot spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

17/07/2024
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

18/07/2024
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".


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 2024 reports, to stay up-to-date oabout the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy

08/07/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 8, 2024 to July 14, 2024
01/07/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 1, 2024 to July 7, 2024
24/06/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from June 24, 2024 to June 30, 2024
17/06/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from June 17, 2024 to June 23, 2024

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