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2025W06 Weekly report => 03/02 2K25 - 09/02 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: BluStealer, FormBook, MintStealer, SnakeLogger, VIPKeylogger
       
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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 February 3 to February 9, 2025.

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

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies: BluStealer, FormBook, MintStealer, SnakeLogger and VIPKeylogger.
The blue bar shows the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns in Italian (and targeting Italy).

We monitored 42 campaigns during the week, 8 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_03 13/01 19/01
Week_04 20/01 26/01
Week_05 27/01 02/02
Week_06 03/02 09/02


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Tuesday, February 4 with 12 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was also found on Tuesday, February 04 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 11 different families were detected:


This week's featured samples are Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 30.95% of malware sent via e-mail.
In second place we find MSIL executables with 26.19%.
As for the third place, there are AutoIT executable files with 21.43%.


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 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.

03/02/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
MintStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

04/02/2025
BluStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

05/02/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
 

Check out the January/February campaigns

We invite you to check out the January and February 2025 reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

27/01/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from January 27, 2025 to February 2, 2025
20/01/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from January 20, 2025 to January 26, 2025
13/01/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from January 13, 2025 to January 19, 2025
06/01/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 6 January 2024 to 12 January 2025

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