24/02/2025
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2025W09 Weekly report => 24/02 2K25 - 02/03 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, BluStealer, FormBook, Remcos, Rhadamanthys, 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
February 17 to March 2, 2025.

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

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
AgentTesla, BluStealer, FormBook, Remcos, Rhadamanthys 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 35
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 considered period:

Week
from to
Week_06 03/02 09/02
Week_07 10/02 16/02
Week_08 17/02 23/02
Week_09 24/02 02/03


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was found on Tuesday, February 25 with 10 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was found on Tuesday, Feb. 25 and Friday, Feb. 28 with 3 campaigns per day, as highlighted by the chart 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 11 different families were detected:



The featured samples this week are AutoIT executables with 28.57% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second place are Script files with 22.86%.
As for the third, there are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 20.00%.

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 6 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.

24/02/2025
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Quotes".

25/02/2025
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
VIPKeylogger 
- spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Payments" and the second themed "Invoices".

27/02/2025
BluStealer spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

28/02/2025
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
Rhadamanthys spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
 

Check out the January/February campaigns

We invite you to check out the January and February 2025 reports to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

17/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from February 17, 2025 to February 23, 2025
10/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from February 10, 2025 to February 16, 2025
03/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from February 3, 2025 to February 9, 2025
27/01/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from January 27, 2025 to February 2, 2025

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