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2024W41 Weekly report => 07/10 2K24 - 13/10 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, SnakeLogger
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below the details of the campaigns massively spread during the week from  October 7 to October 13, 2024.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased slightly compared to the previous week, while campaigns  written in Italian declined.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, FormBook and SnakeLogger.

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 34 campaigns during the week, 3 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
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Week_38 16/09 22/09
Week_39 23/09 29/09
Week_40 30/09 06/10
Week_41 07/10 13/10


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Thursday, October 10 with 10 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was also found on Thursday, October 10 with 3 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 32.35% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second and third place are MSIL (C#) executables with 23.53% and Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 17.66%.
Delphi executable files account for 11.76%.

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 3 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.

10/10/2024
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Documents".
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".

EMOTET
In the past week the massive sending of MalSpam emails for the spread of the Emotet malware was not detected.
 
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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:

30/09/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 30, 2024 to October 06, 2024
23/09/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 23, 2024 to September 30, 2024
16/09/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 16, 2024 to September 22, 2024
09/09/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from September 09, 2024 to September 15, 2024

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