Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week, from 14 April to 20 April 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, PureLogs, Remcos and XWormRAT..
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 37 campaigns during the week, 6 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_13 | 24/03 | 30/03 |
Week_14 | 31/03 | 06/04 |
Week_15 | 07/04 | 13/04 |
Week_16 | 14/04 | 20/04 |
During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Monday 14, Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 April with 9 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was found on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 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 12 different families were detected:
The featured samples this week were MSIL executable files with 40.54% tied with emailed malware.
In second place we find Script files with 24.32%.
As for third and fourth place, we have AutoIT and WIN32 executable files with 16.22% tied.
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.
14/04/2025
PureLogs - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".15/04/2025
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".16/04/2025
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed "Purchases".
PureLogs - spread through a campaign themed "Various".17/04/2025
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
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