25/08/2025
09:36

2025W34 Weekly report => 18/08 2K25 - 24/08 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


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

Below are the details of the campaigns released during
from 18 August to 24 August 2025.

During the monitored week, global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, while campaigns in Italian remained unchanged.


The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
AgentTesla and FormBook.

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 15
campaigns during the week, 3 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_31 28/07 03/08
Week_32 04/08 10/08
Week_33 11/08 17/08
Week_34 18/08 24/08


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Monday 18 August, with five different campaigns per day. The peak in campaigns written in Italian was recorded on Monday 18, Wednesday 20 and Friday 22 August, with one campaign 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 7 different families were detected:

The samples that ranked first this week were the AutoIT executable files, with 40.00%, tied with malware sent via email.
In second place were Script files, with 26.67%.
In third place were MSIL executable files, with 20.00%.

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 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.

18/08/2025
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

20/08/2025
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

22/08/2025
Downloader spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
 

Check out the July/August campaigns

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

11/08/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 11 August 2025 to 17 August 2025
04/08/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 4 August 2025 to 10 August 2025
28/07/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 28 July 2025 to 3 August 2025
21/07/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 21 July 2025 to 27 July 2025

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