Didier Stevens

VBA macros inside a PowerPoint document are not stored directly inside streams, but as records in the “PowerPoint Document” stream. I have a plugin to parse the records of the “PowerPoint Document” stream, but I failed to extract the embedded, compressed OLE file with the macros. Until a recent tweet by @AngeAlbertini brought this up again. On his sample too I failed to extract the compressed OLE file, but then I remembered I had fixed a problem with zlib extraction in pdf-parser.py. Taking this code into plugin_ppt.py fixed the decompression problems.

VBA macros in a PowerPoint document do not appear directly in streams:

Plugin plugin_ppt parses records found in stream “PowerPoint Document”:

Each line represents a record, prefixed by an index generated by the plugin (to easily reference records). Records with a C indicator (like 1 and 435) contain sub-records. Records prefixed with ! contain an embedded object.

Record 441 (RT_ExternalOleObjectStg) interests us because it contains an OLE file with VBA macros.

Plugin option -s can be used to select this record:

Plugin option -a can then be used to do an hex/ascii dump:

The first four bytes are the size, and then follows the zlib compressed OLE file (as indicated by 0x78).

This OLE file can be decompressed and extracted with option -e, but pay attention to use option -q (quiet) so that oledump will only report the output of the plugin, and nothing else. This can then be piped into a second instance of oledump:

And now we can extract the VBA macros:

oledump_V0_0_38.zip (https)
MD5: C1D7F71A390497A516F67D798BA25128
SHA256: 4CADEE69D024E9242CDA0CE3A9C22BCB1CAFF9D5BA2D946519C6B7C18F895B81