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2024W35 Weekly report => 26/08 2K24 - 01/09 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns:  AgentTesla, FormBook
       
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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 26 to September 1, 2024.

In the monitored week both global campaigns and campaigns written in Italian increased compared to the previous week.

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

The blue bar shows 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 26 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_32 04/08 11/08
Week_33 12/08 18/08
Week_34 19/08 25/08
Week_35 26/08 01/09


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday, August 26 with 7 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on Monday, August 26, Thursday, August 29, and Friday, August 30 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 5 different families were detected:


The featured samples this week are AutoIT executibles, which cover 26.92% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second place are MSIL (C#) executibles files with 19.25%.
The 15.38% of files are represented equally by 3 language types, Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.), Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and 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 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.

26/08/2024
FormBook -  spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".

29/08/2024
AgentTesla -  spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

30/08/2024
AgentTesla -  spread through a campaign 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 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:

19/08/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 19, 2024 to August 25, 2024
12/08/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 12, 2024 to August 18, 2024
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

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