29/04/2025
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2025W18 Weekly report => 28/04 2K25 - 04/05 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: FormBook, PureLogs, Remcos, 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 28 April to 04 May 2025.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased slightly compared to the previous week; campaigns in Italian also increased.

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies: FormBook, PureLogs, Remcos 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 19 campaigns during the week, 9 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_15 07/04 13/04
Week_16 14/04 20/04
Week_17 21/04 27/04
Week_18 28/04 04/05


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April with 6 different campaigns per day. The peak of the campaigns in Italian was found on Wednesday 30 April with 3 campaigns per day, as shown 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 8 different families were detected:


This week's top samples were script files with 31.58 per cent tied with malware sent by e-mail.
In second and third place were Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and AutoIT executable files with 21.05% tied.
In fourth place were MSIL executable files with 15.79%.


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 5 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

28/04/2025
PureLogs - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
29/04/2025
Downloader - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

30/04/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

02/05/2025
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
 

Check out the March/April campaigns

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

21/04/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 21 April 2025 to 27 April 2025
14/04/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 14 April 2025 to 20 April 2025
07/04/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 07 April 2025 to 13 April 2025
31/03/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 31 March 2025 to 06 April 2025

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