Win.Trojan.Quasar-7172313-0 — RTF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c406922416b8f797…

MALICIOUS

RTF

2.74 MB Created: 2018-05-21 15:22:00 First seen: 2019-05-31
MD5: a866a0b8ea7186b48ec17ca2439036ef SHA-1: 604315b0bb6ac6e61654050b89552f80bd02e4e0 SHA-256: c406922416b8f7978c23fa56fc08879acddd456f87bc893941338460fb0febd0
542 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Quasar-7172313-0 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF document contains multiple indicators of malicious OLE object embedding, including RTF_OBJDATA, RTF_OBJEMB, and RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX. Crucially, it fires critical heuristics for CVE-2017-8759, indicating exploitation of MSXML SAX OLE activation. ClamAV detected the file as Win.Trojan.Quasar-7172313-0, and suspicious artifacts were extracted, suggesting the execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 13

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759
    RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
  • Composite Moniker in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_COMPOSITE_MONIKER_RELATED
    RTF contains Composite Moniker CLSID in OLE object context, but no nearby scriptlet/SCT payload was confirmed. Treat as related moniker attack-surface evidence rather than proof of CVE-2017-8570 exploitation.
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Quasar-7172313-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Quasar-7172313-0
  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~2603KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com In RTF body
    • https://www.globalsign.com/repository/0In RTF body
    • http://crl.globalsign.com/gs/gstimestampingg2.crl0TIn RTF body
    • http://secure.globalsign.com/cacert/gstimestampingg2.crt0In RTF body
    • https://www.globalsign.com/repository/03In RTF body
    • http://crl.globalsign.net/root.crl0In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00002a8a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2A8A 1301505 bytes
SHA-256: dc759b7b2246d9bb7cb61d86a456ea0eb6d5d7e400c893067e7325925675ba0d
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Quasar-7172313-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.60, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
objdata_01_off00299061.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x299061 23598 bytes
SHA-256: 9d6812245bb9a9acb8a063c32175f2d2d79fdda37feb88384d730b4323f75b05
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd.exe /c %tmp%\A.X %

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