Didier Stevens

My last software release for 2014 was oledump.py V0.0.6 with support for the “ZIP/XML” Microsoft Office fileformat and YARA.

In this post I will highlight support for the “new” Microsoft Office fileformat (.docx, .docm, .xlsx, .xlsm, …), which is mainly composed of XML files stored inside a ZIP container. Except macros which are still stored with OLE files (inside the ZIP container).

When oledump.py detects that the file is actually a ZIP file, it searches through all the files stored inside the ZIP container for OLE files, and analyses these.

Here is an example of a simple spreadsheet with macros. The xlsm file contains one OLE file: xl/vbaProject.bin. oledump gives it the identifier A. All the streams inside the OLE file are reported, and their index is prefixed with the identifier (A in this example).

If you want to select the stream with the macros, you use A6, like this: oledump.py -s A1

oledump also supports the analysis of an OLE file stored in a password protected ZIP file (typically, malware samples are stored inside ZIP files with password infected). When oledump.py analyses a ZIP file with extension .zip, it assumes that the file is NOT using the “new” Microsoft Office fileformat. Only when the file is a ZIP file but the extension is not .zip does oledump assume that the file is using the “new” Microsoft Office fileformat.

I have another example in my Internet Storm Center Guest Diary Entry.

oledump_V0_0_6.zip (https)
MD5: E32069589FEB7B53707D00D7E0256F79
SHA256: 8FCEFAEF5E6A2779FC8755ED96FB1A8DACDBE037B98EE419DBB974B5F18E578B