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2025W11 Weekly report => 10/03 2K25 - 16/03 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, MintStealer, Remcos, SnakeLogger, VIPKeylogger
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week from 10 March to 16 March 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: AgentTesla, FormBook, MintStealer, Remcos, 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 36 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 considered period.

Week
 		from to
Week_08 17/02 23/02
Week_09 24/02 02/03
Week_10 03/03 09/03
Week_11 10/03 16/03


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday 10 March with 12 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was also found on Monday 10 March with 5 campaigns per day, as highlighted in 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:


Samples that featured this week are MSIL executables with 27.78% of the malware sent by e-mail.
In second place are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 25.00%.
In third place are WIN32 executables with 22.22%.

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 6 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.

10/03/2025
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Orders" and the second themed "Quotes".
MintStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

11/03/2025
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
VIPKeylogger - spread through three campaigns, the first and second themed "Orders", the third themed "Payments".

14/03/2025
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Communications".
 

Check out the February/March campaigns

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

03/03/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 3 March 2025 to 9 March 2025
24/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 24 February 2025 to  2 March 2025
17/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 17 February 2025 to 23 February 2025
10/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 10 February 2025 to 16 February 2025

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