03/03/2025
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2025W10 Weekly report => 03/03 2K25 - 09/03 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: FormBook e VidarStealer
       
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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 March 3 to March 9, 2025.

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

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies: FormBook and VidarStealer.
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 28 campaigns during the week, 2 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_07 10/02 16/02
Week_08 17/02 23/02
Week_09 24/02 02/03
Week_10 03/03 09/03


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Thursday, March 6 with 8 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on Monday, March 3 and Friday, March 7 with 1 campaign per day, as is 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 9 different families were detected:



The featured samples this week are MSIL executables with 35.71% of the malware sent via e-mail.
In second place are WIN32 executable files with 21.43%.
As for the third, there are Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 17.86%.


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 2 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.

03/03/2025
VidarStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

07/03/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
 

Check out the February/March campaigns

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


24/02/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from February 24, 2025 to March 02, 2025
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

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