14/02/2022
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2022W07 Weekly report => 14/02 2K22 - 20/02 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, sLoad, QakBot, Ursnif
       
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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 February 14 to February 20, 2022

In the monitored week, global campaigns remained stable compared to the previous week, with those targeting Italian users declining slightly.
No malspam sending activity was detected to spread the Emotet malware.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families:  AgentTesla, FormBook, sLoad, QakBot and Ursnif.

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 119 campaigns this week, 17 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
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Week_04 24/01 30/01
Week_05 31/01 06/02
Week_06 07/02 13/02
Week_07 14/01 20/02


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Thursday 17 with 32 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 8 campaigns regarding the Italy target was found on Monday, Feb. 14, as highlighted by the chart below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 71.43% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 16.81%.
2.52% 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.

14/02/2022
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Payments" and the second themed "Offerte".
FormBook - spread through four campaigns, two themed "Orders", one themed "Payments", and one themed "Offers".
sLoad - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
QakBot - spread through a campaign themed "varie".

15/02/2022
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".

16/02/2022
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Epidemiological emergency".

17/02/2022
FormBook - spread through three campaigns, two themed "Orders", and one themed "Offers",
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Epidemiological emergency".

18/02/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed  "Payments".

20/02/2022
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed  "Payments".

EMOTET
There were no Malspam sending campaigns to spread the Emotet malware during the week.
 Emotet made pauses in sending malspam already in the past.

Check out the January/February campaigns

We invite you to check out the January/February reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy

07/02/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from February 07, 2021 to February 13, 2022
31/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 31, 2021 to February 06, 2022
24/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 24, 2021 to January 30, 2022
17/01/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from January 17, 2021 to January 23, 2022


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