25/03/2024
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2024W13 Weekly report => 25/03 2K24 - 31/03 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, BluStealer
       
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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
March 25 to March 31, 2024.

In the monitored week, global campaigns and campaigns written in Italian dropped compared to the previous week.


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

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 32 campaigns during the week, 10 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_10 04/03 10/03
Week_11 11/03 17/03
Week_12 18/03 24/03
Week_13 25/03 31/03


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Wednesday, March 27, with 11 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on the same day with 4 campaigns per day, 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 40.63% of malware sent via e-mail.
In second place of executable files, with 9.38%, are Delphi.
Scripts (JavaScript, VBScript, Powershell, etc.) account for 28.11% of the samples.



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. 

25/03/2024
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Reservations".

26/03/2024
AgentTesla spread through three campaigns, the first and second themed "Quotesand the third themed "Various".

27/03/2024
AgentTesla spread through three campaigns, the first and second themed "Quotesand the third themed "Orders".
BluStealer spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

28/03/2024
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

29/03/2024
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
 

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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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 February/March campaigns

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

18/03/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 18, 2024 to March 24, 2024
11/03/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 11, 2024 to March 17, 2024
04/03/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from March 04, 2024 to March 10, 2024
26/02/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from February 26, 2024 to March 03, 2024

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