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2025W36 Weekly report => 01/09 2K25 - 07/09 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AsyncRAT, Ave_Maria, Remcos, VIPKeylogger, XWormRAT
      
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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 01 September to 07 September 2025.

During the
monitored week, global campaigns increased significantly compared to the previous week, Italian campaigns also increased.

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
AsyncRAT, Ave_Maria, Remcos, VIPKeylogger and XWormRAT.

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_33 11/08 17/08
Week_34 18/08 24/08
Week_35 25/08 31/08
Week_36 01/09 07/09


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Monday 01 and Tuesday 02 September, with 7 different campaigns per day. The peak in campaigns written in Italian was recorded on Tuesday 02 September, 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 11 different families were detected:

The most commonly used languages this week are Script and MSIL executable files, tied for first place with 28.00%.
In second place are WIN32 executable files with 24.00%.
In third place are AutoIT executable files 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 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.

02/09/2025
Downloader - spread through a campaign themed"Invoices".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
XWormRAT spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

03/09/2025
AsyncRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".
Remcos 
spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

04/09/2025
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Offers".

05/09/2025
Ave_Maria spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
 

Check out the August campaigns

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

25/08/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 25 August 2025 to 31 August 2025
18/08/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from August 18, 2025, to August 24, 2025
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

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