14/08/2024
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2024W33 Weekly report => 12/08 2K24 - 18/08 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla
       
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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 August 12 to August 18, 2024.

In the monitored week, global campaigns declined sharply from the previous week; campaigns written in Italian also declined.

The week is characterized by Password Stealer from the AgentTesla family.

The blue bar indicates the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns written in Italian (and targeting Italy).

We monitored 20 campaigns during the 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:

Week
 		from to
Week_30 22/07 28/07
Week_31 29/07 04/08
Week_32 05/08 11/08
Week_33 12/08 18/08


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday, August 12 with 7 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on Tuesday, August 13, and Thursday, August 15, with 1 campaign 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 4 different families were detected:


This week's featured samples are MSIL (C#) executables, which cover 50% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second and third place are AutoIT executibles and Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 15% tied.
10% of the files are Script (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.), with the same percentage we also find WIN32 executable files.

In the picture below we can see the various types of language used to develop malware:

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 spread during the week with target Italy (written in Italian) and composed of 1 familiy:

 
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.

13/08/2024
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
15/08/2024
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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Check out the July/August campaigns

We invite you to check out the July/August 2024 reports, to stay up-to-date oabout the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

05/08/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Aug. 5, 2024 to Aug. 11, 2024
29/07/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 29, 2024 to August 4, 2024
22/07/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 22, 2024 to July 28, 2024
15/07/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from July 15, 2024 to July 21, 2024

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