16/05/2022
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2022W20 Weekly report => 16/05 2K22 - 22/05 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Azorult, Emotet, FormBook, sLoad, 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 May 16 to May 22, 2022.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased slightly from the previous week, with those targeting Italian users also increasing slightly.

Malspam sending, to spread the Emotet malware, occurred consistently all week, with over 57500 specific IOCs detected.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, Azorult, FormBook, sLoad 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 48 campaigns this week, 5 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_17 25/04 01/05
Week_18 02/05 08/05
Week_19 09/05 15/05
Week_20 16/05 22/05


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Friday, May 20 with 11 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 2 campaigns regarding the Italy target was found on Thursday, May 19, as is highlighted by the chart below:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 47.92% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32 with 12.50%.
The' 14.58% 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

16/05/2022
sLoad - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

17/05/2022
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "goods".

18/05/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

19/05/2022
Azorult - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".


EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails to spread the Emotet malware, continued.
Malspam emails contain a ZIP file with password inside, that contains an Excel file or a powershell command link.
Below we see the number of unique hashes for monitored attachments on different days of the week:


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Check out the April/May campaigns

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

09/05/2022 =>  Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from May 09, 2022 to May 15, 2022
02/05/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from May 02, 2022 to May 08, 2022
25/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 25, 2022 to May 01, 2022
18/04/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from April 18, 2022 to April 24, 2022


C.R.A.M. 
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