27/12/2023
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2023W52 Weekly report => 25/12 2K23 - 31/12 2K23 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Christmas week with 3 global campaigns spreading  AgentTesla and Remcos
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from December 25 to December 31, 2023.

In the monitored week, global campaigns dropped significantly from the previous week due to the Christmas holidays. No campaigns written in the Italian language were detected.

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 3 campaigns during the week.


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_49 04/12 10/12
Week_50 11/12 17/12
Week_51 18/12 24/12
Week_52 25/12 31/12


During the week, the highest peak of global campaigns was found on Thursday, December 28 with 2 different campaigns, as  highlighted by the graph below:




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



Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week, 2 different families were detected:



The majority of the executable samples featured this week are MSILs (C#), covering 66.67% of the malware sent via e-mail.
33.33% of the analyzed samples are Scripts (JS, VBS, WSF, etc.).

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:


 
 
EMOTET
 In the past week the massive sending of MalSpam emails, for the spread of the Emotet malware, was not detected.
 
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Check out the November/December campaigns

We invite you to check out the November/December 2023 reports, to stay up-to-date oabout the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy

18/12/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from December 18, 2023 to December 24, 2023
11/12/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from December 11, 2023 to December 17, 2023
04/12/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from December 04, 2023 to December 10, 2023
27/11/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from November 27, 2023 to December 03, 2023

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