Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week from 17 March to 23 March 2025.
In the monitored week, global campaigns decreased significantly compared to the previous week; campaigns in Italian also declined.
The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies: AgentTesla, FormBook and Remcos.
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 21 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 considered period.
Week | from | to |
Week_09 | 24/02 | 02/03 |
Week_10 | 03/03 | 09/03 |
Week_11 | 10/03 | 16/03 |
Week_12 | 17/03 | 23/03 |
During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Tuesday 18 March with 8 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on 17, 18, 19 and 20 March with 1 campaign per day, as shown in 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:
This week's top samples were Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 33.33 per cent of malware sent by e-mail.
In second place are script files with 28.57%.
In third place, are MSIL executable files with 19.05%.
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 3 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.
17/03/2025
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".18/03/2025
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".19/03/2025
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".20/03/2025
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
We invite you to check out the February and March 2025 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:
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