Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week, from 7 April to 13 April 2025.
In the monitored week global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, while campaigns in Italian decreased.
The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies: FormBook, MintStealer and PureLogs..
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 33 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_12 | 17/03 | 23/03 |
Week_13 | 24/03 | 30/03 |
Week_14 | 31/03 | 06/04 |
Week_15 | 07/04 | 13/04 |
During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday 7 April with 11 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was found on Monday 7 April and Thursday 10 April, with 2 campaigns 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 8 different families were detected:
This week's top samples were script files and Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 27.27 per cent, tied with malware sent by e-mail.
In second place were MSIL executable files with 21.22%.
In third place, were AutoIT executable files with 12.12%.
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.
07/04/2025
MintStealer - spread through a campaign themed "Payments".
PureLogs - spread through a campaign themed "Producs".10/04/2025
FormBook - spread through two campaigns, the first themed "Invoices" and the second themed "Payments".
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