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2024W47 Weekly report => 18/11 2K24 - 24/11 2K24 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, MintStealer, Remcos, XWormRAT
       
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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
November 18 to November 24, 2024.

In the week monitored, global campaigns increased slightly compared to the previous week; 
campaigns in Italian also increased.

The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: 
AgentTesla, FormBook, MintStealer, Remcos 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 32 campaigns during the week, 11 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
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Week_47 18/11 24/11


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Tuesday, November 19 with 12 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was also found on Tuesday, November 19 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 10 different families were detected:


The featured samples this week are AutoIT executables with 34.38% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second place are Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 31.25%.
WIN32 executable files account for 15.60%


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 5 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.

18/11/2024
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Reservations".
MintStealer spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Communications".

19/11/2024
AgentTesla - spread through three campaigns, the first and second themed "Reservations" and the third themed "Payments".
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Documents".

20/11/2024
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Documents".

21/11/2024
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

22/11/2024
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
 
 
Check out the October/November campaigns

We invite you to check out the October/November 2024 reports, to stay up-to-date about the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

11/11/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Nov. 11, 2024 to Nov. 17, 2024
04/11/2024 =>Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from November 4, 2024 to November 10, 2024
28/10/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 28, 2024 to November 3, 2024
21/10/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from October 21, 2024 to October 27, 2024

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