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2024W43 Weekly report => 21/10 2K24 - 27/10 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, Remcos, SnakeLogger
       
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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 
October 21 to October 27, 2024.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased slightly compared to the previous week, while campaigns written in Italian declined.


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

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 38 campaigns during the week, 7 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_40 30/09 06/10
Week_41 07/10 13/10
Week_42 14/10 20/10
Week_43 21/10 27/10


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Monday, October 21 with 12 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was also found on Monday, October 21 with 3 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 9 different families were detected:


The featured samples this week are AutoIT executables with 31.58% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second and third place are MSIL (C#) executable files with 26.32% and Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 23.68%.
Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) account for 10.53%.


In the chart 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 (in Italian) and composed of 4 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.

21/10
/2024
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook 
- spread through a campaign themed "Payments".

22/10/2024
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

23/10/2024
FormBook - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Requests" and the second themed "Shipping".

25/10/2024
SnakeLogger spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
 
 

Check out the September/October campaigns

We invite you to check out the September/October 2024 reports, to stay up-to-date about the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

14/10/2024 =>Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 14, 2024 to October 20, 2024
07/10/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 7, 2024 to October 13, 2024
30/09/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 30, 2024 to October 6, 2024
23/09/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 23, 2024 to September 30, 2024

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