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2022W45 Weekly report => 07/11 2K22 - 13/11 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Emotet, FormBook, IcedID, SnakeLogger
       
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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 Nov. 07 to Nov 13, 2022.

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

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

During the week Malspam mass distribution, to spread the Emotet malware, continued.
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 94 campaigns this week, 16 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_42 17/10 23/10
Week_43 24/10 30/10
Week_44 31/10 06/11
Week_45 07/11 13/11


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Wednesday, November 08 with 25 different campaigns. Same day for the maximum peak of 5 campaigns for the Italy target, as is highlighted by the chart below:


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



Instead, in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week, 17 different families were detected:


The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 35.11% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32 with 22.34%.
35.11% of the distributed samples are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
In the picture below we can see the various types of languages used in malware development:

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 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.

07/11/2022
Emotet - spread through a campaign themed "Various" (reply-chain).
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".

08/11/2022
Emotet - spread through a campaign themed "Various" (reply-chain).
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
IcedID - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "EnelEnergia" and the second themed "DHL".
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

09/11/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Various".
Emotet - spread through campaigns themed "Various" (reply-chain).

10/11/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Emotet - spread through a campaign themed "Various" (reply-chain).
IcedID - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".

11/11/2022
Emotet - spread through campaigns themed "Various" (reply-chain).
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Prices".

12/11/2022
Emotet - spread through campaigns themed "Various" (reply-chain).


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

 

In the next graph we see the number of Emotet's Malspam emails examined on the various days of the week, totaling more than 1.7 MILLION emails examined:

 

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Check out the October/November campaigns

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

31/10/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 31, 2022 to November 06, 2022
24/10/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 24, 2022 to October 30, 2022
17/10/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 17, 2022 to October 23, 2022
10/10/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from October 10, 2022 to October 16, 2022


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