20/10/2025
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2025W43 Weekly report => 20/10 2K25 - 26/10 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: Downloader, FormBook, Remcos, VIPKeylogger
      
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Weekly report by the TG Soft CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below are the details of the campaigns released during from 20 October to 26 October 2025.

During the monitored week, global campaigns decreased compared to the previous week, with Italian campaigns also declining.

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies: FormBook, 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 35 campaigns during the week, 4 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_40 29/09 05/10
Week_41 06/10 12/10
Week_42 13/10 19/10
Week_43 20/10 26/10


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was recorded on Tuesday, 21 October, with 10 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns  in Italian was recorded on Wednesday, 22 October, with 2 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 9 different families were detected:
The samples that ranked first this week are Script files with 42.86%.
In second place are WIN32 executable files with 17.14%.
In third and fourth place, we have MSIL executable files and Delphi executable files with 14.29% each.

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 4 families:

The Italian campaigns analyzed by the TG Soft 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.

21/10/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
22/10/2025
Downloader - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

24/10/2025
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
 

Check out the September/October campaigns

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

13/10/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 13 October 2025 to 19 October 2025
06/10/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 06 October 2025 to 12 October 2025
29/09/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 29 September 2025 to 05 October 2025
22/09/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 22 September 2025 to 28 September 2025

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