Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below are the details of the campaigns spread during the week from 03 August 2026 to 09 August 2026.
During the week under review, the number of global campaigns increased compared with the previous week, whilst the number of campaigns in Italian decreased.
This week was characterised by Password Stealers from the following families: AgentTesla, FormBook, 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 63 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_29 |
13/07 |
19/07 |
| Week_30 |
20/07 |
26/07 |
| Week_31 |
27/07 |
02/08 |
| Week_32 |
03/08 |
09/08 |
During the week, the peak number of global campaigns was recorded on Wednesday 05 August, with 19 different campaigns. The peak number of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Monday 03 August, with 4 different campaigns, 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 11 different families were detected:
The top-ranking samples this week are Script files accounting for 69,84%.
Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) follow in second place with 14,29%.
As for third place, we find MSIL files with 12,70%.
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 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.
03/08/2026
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".
Remcos - spread through two campaigns themed around"Receipts" and "Orders".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".
04/08/2026
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Miscellaneous".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed around "Receipts".
05/08/2026
FormBook - spread through two campaigns themed around "Requests".
06/08/2026
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".
07/08/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".
Check out the June and July campaigns
We invite you to check out the June and July 2026 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:
