27/05/2025
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2025W22 Weekly report => 26/05 2K25 - 01/06 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: Ave_MariaFormBook, PhantomStealer, 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 26
May to 1 June 2025.

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


The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
Ave_Maria, FormBook, PhantomStealer, 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 25
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 considered period:

Week from to
Week_19 05/05 11/05
Week_20 12/05 18/05
Week_21 19/05 25/05
Week_22 26/05 01/06

During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday 26 May with 7 different campaigns per day. The peak of the campaigns  in Italian was found on Monday 26 and Friday 30 May 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 of the week:



Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week 10 different families were detected:


This week's top samples were script files and AutoIT executable files with 36.00% equal to malware sent by e-mail.
In second place were MSIL executable files with 20.00%.
In third place we found Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 8.00%.


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


26/05/2025
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Documents".
PhantomStealer spread through a campaign themed "Documents".
Remcos spread through a campaign themedema "Orders".

28/05/2025
PhantomStealer spread through a campaign themed "Documents".

30/05/2025
Ave_Maria spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Orders". 
 

 

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:

19/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 19 May 2025 to 25 May 2025
12/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 12 May 2025 to 18 May 2025
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

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