Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below are the details of the campaigns spread during the week from 25 May 2026 to 31 May 2026.
During the week under review, the number of global campaigns increased compared with the previous week, and the number of campaigns in Italian also rose.
This week was characterised by Password Stealers from the following families: AgentTesla, FormBook, PhantomStealer, PureHVNC, Remcos, Stealer 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 59 campaigns during the week, 17 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
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from |
to |
| Week_19 |
04/05 |
10/05 |
| Week_20 |
11/05 |
17/05 |
| Week_21 |
18/05 |
24/05 |
| Week_22 |
25/05 |
31/05 |
During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Tuesday 26 May, with 15 different campaigns. The peak of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 May, with 5 different campaigns on each day respectively, as shown in the chart 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 were Script files, accounting for 64.41%
In second place, tied, were MSIL files and Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), each with 13.56%.
In third place were WIN32 files, with 8.47%.
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 7 families:
The campaigns in Italian 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.
25/05/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Miscellaneous".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
26/05/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
PhantomStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
27/05/2026
Downloader - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
PhantomStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
28/05/2026
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns themed "Bank transfers" and "Orders".
PhantomStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
Remcos - spread through two campaigns themed"Bank transfers" and "Requests".
29/05/2026
PureHVNC - spread through a campaign themed "Documents".
Check out the April/May campaigns
We invite you to check out the April/May 2026 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:
