08/01/2024
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2024W02 Weekly report => 08/01 2K24 - 14/01 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, PureLogs
       
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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 January 08 to January 14, 2024.

In the monitored week, global and Italian campaigns have increased compared to the past week; those written in Italian are also on the rise.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla and PureLogs.

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 14 campaigns during the week, 3 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_51 18/11 24/12
Week_52 25/12 31/12
Week_01 01/01 07/01
Week_02 08/01 14/01


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Wednesday, January 10 with 6 different campaigns. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on January 11 with 2 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, 5 different families were detected:

This week's featured samples are MSIL (C#) executables, which cover 57.15% of the malware sent via e-mail.
28.57% of the samples analyzed 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:

 

In this graph you can see the malware families that were spread with target Italy (written in Italian) in the week, composed of 2 different families:

 
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.

10/01/2024
PureLogs - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

11/01/2024
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Orders" and the second themed "Payments".
 
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 December/January campaigns

We invite you to check out the December 2023/January 2024 reports, to stay up-to-date oabout the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy.

01/01/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Jan. 01, 2024 to Jan. 07, 2024
25/12/2023 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from December 25, 2023 to December 31, 2023
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

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