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2022W16 Weekly report => 18/04 2K22 - 24/04 2K22  MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, Emotet, LokiBot, NanoCore
       
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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 April 18 to
April 24, 2022.

In the monitored week, global campaigns decreased compared to the previous week, with those targeting Italian users also declining, a decrease attributable mainly to the holiday season.


This week malspam sending, for the spread of the Emotet malware, resumed.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families:  AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, LokiBot and NanoCore.

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 56 campaigns this week, 8 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_13 28/03 03/04
Week_14 04/04 10/04
Week_15 11/04 17/04
Week_16 18/04 24/04


During the week, the highest peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 21, tied with 16 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 5 campaigns regarding the Italy target was found on Thursday, April 21, 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 16.07%.
3.57% 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.


19/04/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".

20/04/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".
Ave_Maria -
spread through a campaign themed "Pickups".

21/04/2022
AgentTesla -
spread through a campaign themed "Quotations" e una a tema "Orders".
Ave_Maria 
-
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
NanoCore -
spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
LokiBot -
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

EMOTET
In the final part of the past week, the sending of MalSpam emails to spread the Emotet malware, resumed.
Malspam emails contain an Excel attachment inside or a ZIP file with a password that itself includes an Excel file.

Check out the March/April campaigns

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

11/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 11, 2022 to April 17, 2022
04/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 04, 2022 to April 10, 2022
28/03/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from March 28, 2021 to April 03, 2022
21/03/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from March 21, 2021 to March 27, 2022


C.R.A.M.
TG Soft's Anti-Malware Research Center
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