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2025W02 Weekly report => 06/01 2K25 - 12/01 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: MintStealer, SnakeLogger, StormKitty, VIPKeylogger
       
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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 January 6 to January 12, 2025.

In the monitored week both global and Italian campaigns increased compared to the previous week.

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Families: MintStealer, SnakeLogger, StormKitty and VIPKeylogger.
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 18 campaigns during the week, 4 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_51 16/11 22/12
Week_52 23/12 29/12
Week_01 30/12 05/01
Week_02 06/01 12/01


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday, January 6 and Wednesday, January 8 with 5 different campaigns per day. The peak of the campaigns in Italian was found on Monday, January 6 with 2 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 we find MSIL executables with 33.33%.
In third place we have Script files (JS, VBS, PS, HTML, Link, etc.) with 16.67%.

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 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.

06/01/2025
MintStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
StormKitty - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

07/01/2025
SnakeLogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

08/01/2025
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
 
 

Check out the December/January campaigns

We invite you to check out the December 2024/January 2025 reports, to stay up-to-date about the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

30/12/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Dec. 30, 2024 to Jan. 5, 2025
23/12/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Dec. 23, 2024 to Dec. 29, 2024
16/12/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Dec. 16, 2024 to Dec. 23, 2024
09/12/2024 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from Dec. 9, 2024 to Dec. 15, 2024

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