Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from October 14 to October 20, 2024.
In the monitored week, global campaigns increased slightly compared to the previous week; campaigns written in Italian also increased.
The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: FormBook, LokiBot, Remcos, SnakeLogger, VIPKeylogger and XWormRAT.
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 36 campaigns during the week, 8 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_39 | 23/09 | 29/09 |
Week_40 | 30/09 | 06/10 |
Week_41 | 07/10 | 13/10 |
Week_42 | 14/10 | 20/10 |
During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Tuesday, October 15 with 12 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was also found on Tuesday, October 15 with 5 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 7 different families were detected:
The featured samples this week are AutoIT executables with 38.89% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second place are Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 19.44%.
MSIL executable files (C#) and WIN32 executable files account for 16.67%.
In the picture 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 (written in Italian) and composed of 6 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.
15/10/2024
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
LokiBot - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".16/10/2024
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".17/10/2024
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Offers".18/10/2024
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
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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