15/09/2025
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2025W38 Weekly report => 15/09 2K25 - 21/09 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, BluStealer, FormBook, PhantomStealer, Remcos, 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 15 September to 21 September 2025.

During the monitored week, global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, with Italian campaigns also on the rise.


The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
AgentTesla, BluStealer, FormBook, PhantomStealer, Remcos 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 31
campaigns during the week, 10 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_35 25/08 31/08
Week_36 01/09 07/09
Week_37 08/09 14/09
Week_38 15/09 21/09


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Tuesday 16 September, with 9 different campaigns per day. The peak in campaigns  in Italian was recorded on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 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 8 different families were detected:

The samples that ranked first this week were Script files with 35.49%.
In second place were MSIL executable files with 29.03%.
In third place were WIN32 executable files with 12.90%.


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.
 

15/09/2025
BluStealer spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

16/09/2025
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook 
spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Offers".

17/09/2025
Remcos - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Orders" and the second themed "Payments".

18/09/2025
XWormRAT spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".

19/09/2025
PhantomStealer spread through a campaign themed "Various".
 

Check out the August/September campaigns

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

08/09/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 08 September 2025 to 14 September 2025
01/09/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 01 September 2025 to 07 September 2025
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

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