Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from October 28 to November 3, 2024.
In the monitored week, global campaigns decreased compared to the previous week, while campaigns in Italian increased.
The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, FormBook, SnakeLogger and VIPKeylogger.
The blue bar shows the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns written in Italian (and targeting Italy).
We monitored 29 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 periods considered:
Week |
from | to |
Week_41 | 07/10 | 13/10 |
Week_42 | 14/10 | 20/10 |
Week_43 | 21/10 | 27/10 |
Week_44 | 28/10 | 03/11 |
During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday, October 28 and Wednesday, October 30 with 8 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was found on Wednesday, October 30 with 4 campaigns per day, as highlighted by the graph below:
In the following chart we see the malware families spread globally for each day in the week:
Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week 6 different families were detected:
The featured samples this week are MSIL executables with 31.03% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second, third and fourth place we find in equal measure executable AutoIT, WIN32 and Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 20.69%
Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Delphi samples account for 3.45% tied.
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 different 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.
28/10/2024
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Various".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".29/10/2024
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".30/10/2024
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".01/11/2024
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Check out the September/October campaigns
We invite you to check out the September/October 2024 reports, to stay up-to-date about the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:
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