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2022W49 Weekly report => 05/12 2K22 - 11/12 2K22 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, LokiBot, 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 Dec. 5 to Dec. 11, 2022.

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

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

The week did not see the massive distribution of Malspam due to the spread of the Emotet malware.

 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 63 campaigns this week, 9 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_46 14/11 20/11
Week_47 21/11 27/11
Week_48 28/11 04/12
Week_49 05/12 11/12


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday, December 06, with 22 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 7 campaigns for the Italy target was found on the same day, as highlighted by the graph 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, 14 different families were detected:


The majority of the executable samples featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 50.79% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 19.05%.
19.05% 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 exploited for malware distribution (malspam). Below we see the subjects used in the various campaigns divided by day and type of malware.

06/12/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
QakBot - spread through a campaign themed "Various".
Password Stealer - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices" -> Update of 15/12/2022: The campaign uses PureLogs Stealer malware. The campaign appears to be spread by a new Cyber Criminal actor named "Alibaba2044."
Ursnif - spread through three campaigns, the first themed "Invoices TNT", the second themed "Payments DHL" and the third themed "Revenue Agency". More technical details and email examples are available at the following links: Ursnif TNT/DHL e Ursnif Revenue Agency

07/12/2022
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

09/12/2022
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails to spread the Emotet malware was not detected.

 
Find out if you are an Emotet target! TG Soft, as reported in the informative "HAVEiBeenEMOTET portal to find out whether a mailbox has been used in malspam campaigns to spread EMOTET " has provided and maintained for over a year the HAVEiBeenEMOTET service, which is useful to check if your email addresses or domains are targeted by Emotet.
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Check out the November/December campaigns

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

28/11/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from November 28, 2022 to December 04, 2022
21/11/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from November 21, 2022 to November 27, 2022
14/11/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from November 14, 2022 to November 20, 2022
07/11/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from November 07, 2022 to November 13, 2022


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