13/05/2025
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2025W20 Weekly report => 12/05 2K25 - 18/05 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: FormBook, PhantomStealer, Remcos
       
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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 12
May to 18 May 2025.

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


The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
FormBook, PhantomStealer and Remcos.

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 22
campaigns during the week, 5 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_17 21/04 27/04
Week_18 28/04 04/05
Week_19 05/05 11/05
Week_20 12/05 18/05


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday 12, Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 May with 6 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was found on Wednesday 14 May with 2 campaigns per day, as is shown in the graph below:




In the following chart we see the malware families spread globally for each day of the week:




Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week 7 different families were detected:


This week's top samples were script files with 40.91%, tied with malware sent by e-mail.
In second place were MSIL executable files with 36.36%.
In third and fourth place, there were AutoIT executable files and Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 9.09% tied.


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 3 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


12/05/2025
PhantomStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Documents".

13/05/2025
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

14/05/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

15/05/2025
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
 
 

Check out the campaigns for April/May

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

05/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 05 May 2025 to 11 May 2025
28/04/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 28 April 2025 to 04 May 2025
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

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