27/12/2022
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2022W52 Weekly report => 26/12 2K22 - 01/01 2K23 MalSpam campaigns  targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: Ursnif, VenomRAT
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's C.R.A.M concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below are details of the campaigns massively spread during the week of Dec. 26 to Jan. 01, 2023.

In the monitored week, global campaigns declined sharply from the previous week, as well as those targeting Italian users .

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: Ursnif and VenomRAT.

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 8 campaigns this week, 2 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:

Settimana
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Week_49 05/12 11/12
Week_50 12/12 18/12
Week_51 19/12 25/12
Week_52 26/12 01/01


During the week, the maximum peak of campaigns was found on Tuesday, December 27 with 4 different campaigns. The maximum peak of 2 campaigns for the Italy target was found on the same day, as is evidenced by the graph below:



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



Instead, in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week, 6 different families were detected:


The majority of the sample executables featured this week were developed in MSIL (C#) and covered 62.50% of the malware sent via e-mail.

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.
 
27/12/2022
Ursnif - spread through a campaign themed "Revenue Agency".
VenomRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Documents".


 
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.
With this service you can check for free if your email addresses/domains are involved or are targets of MalSpam by Emotet.
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Check out the campaigns for the month of November/December

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

19/12/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from December 19, 2022 to December 25, 2022
12/12/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from December 12, 2022 to December 18, 2022
05/12/2022 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Dec. 05, 2022 to Dec. 11, 2022
28/11/2022 => Weekly report of Italian Malspam campaigns from November 28, 2022 to December 04, 2022


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