Package: oletools
oletoolsis a package of
python tools to analyzeMicrosoft OLE2
files(also called Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format or Compound
Document File Format), such as Microsoft Office documents or Outlook
messages, mainly for malware analysis, forensics and debugging. It is
based on theolefileparser. Seehttp://www.decalage.info/python/oletoolsfor more info.Quick links:Home
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Software.News2022-05-09 v0.60.1:olevba:fixed a bug when calling XLMMacroDeobfuscator (PR #737)removed keyword “sample” causing false positivesoleid: fixed OleID init issue (issue #695, PR #696)oleobj:added simple detection of CVE-2021-40444 initial stageadded detection for customUI onLoadimproved handling of incorrect filenames in OLE package (PR
#451)rtfobj: fixed code to find URLs in OLE2Link objects for Py3 (issue
#692)ftguess:added PowerPoint and XPS formats (PR #716)fixed issue with XPS and malformed documents (issue #711)added XLSB format (issue #758)improved logging with common module log_helper (PR #449)2021-06-02 v0.60:ftguess: new tool to identify file formats and containers (issue
#680)oleid: (issue #679)each indicator now has a risk levelcalls ftguess to identify file formatscalls olevba+mraptor to detect and analyse VBA+XLM macrosolevba:when XLMMacroDeobfuscator is available, use it to extract and
deobfuscate XLM macrosrtfobj:use ftguess to identify file type of OLE Package (issue #682)fixed bug in re_executable_extensionscrypto: added PowerPoint transparent password ‘/01Hannes
Ruescher/01’ (issue #627)setup: XLMMacroDeobfuscator, xlrd2 and pyxlsb2 added as optional
dependencies2021-05-07 v0.56.2:olevba:updated plugin_biff to v0.0.22 to fix a bug (issues #647, #674)olevba, mraptor:added detection of Workbook_BeforeClose (issue #518)rtfobj:fixed bug when OLE package class name ends with null characters
(issue #507, PR #648)oleid:fixed bug in check_excel (issue #584, PR #585)clsid:added several CLSIDs related to MS Office click-to-run issue
CVE-2021-27058added checks to ensure that all CLSIDs are uppercase (PR #678)2021-04-02 v0.56.1:olevba:fixed bug when parsing some malformed files (issue #629)oleobj:fixed bug preventing detection of links ‘externalReference’,
‘frame’, ‘hyperlink’ (issue #641, PR #670)setup:avoid installing msoffcrypto-tool when platform is PyPy+Windows
(issue #473)PyPI version is now a wheel package to improve installation and
avoid antivirus false positives due to test files (issues #215,
#398)2020-09-28 v0.56:olevba/mraptor:added detection of trigger _OnConnectingolevba:updated plugin_biff to v0.0.17 to improve Excel 4/XLM macros
parsingadded simple analysis of Excel 4/XLM macros in XLSM files (PR
#569)added detection of template injection (PR #569)added detection of many suspicious keywords (PR #591 and #569,
seehttps://www.certego.net/en/news/advanced-vba-macros/)improved MHT detection (PR #532)added –no-xlm option to disable Excel 4/XLM macros parsing (PR
#532)fixed bug when decompressing raw chunks in VBA (issue #575)fixed bug with email package due to monkeypatch for MHT parsing
(issue #602, PR #604)fixed option –relaxed (issue #596, PR #595)enabled relaxed mode by default (issues #477, #593)fixed detect_vba_macros to always return VBA code as unicode on
Python 3 (issues #455, #477, #587, #593)replaced option –pcode by –show-pcode and –no-pcode,
replaced optparse by argparse (PR #479)oleform: improved form parsing (PR #532)oleobj: “Ole10Native” is now case insensitive (issue #541)clsid: added PDF (issue #552), Microsoft Word Picture (issue #571)ppt_parser: fixed bug on Python 3 (issues #177, #607, PR #450)2019-12-03 v0.55:olevba:added support for SLK files and XLM macro extraction from SLKVBA Stomping detectionintegrated pcodedmp to extract and disassemble P-codedetection of suspicious keywords and IOCs in P-codenew option –pcode to display P-code disassemblyimproved detection of auto execution triggersrtfobj: added URL carver for CVE-2017-0199better handling of unicode for systems with locale that does not
support UTF-8, e.g. LANG=C (PR #365)tests:test files can now be encrypted, to avoid antivirus alerts (PR
#217, issue #215)tests that trigger antivirus alerts have been temporarily
disabled (issue #215)See thefull
changelogfor
more information.Tools:Tools to analyze malicious documentsoleid: to
analyze OLE files to detect specific characteristics usually found in
malicious files.olevba: to
extract and analyze VBA Macro source code from MS Office documents
(OLE and OpenXML).MacroRaptor:
to detect malicious VBA Macrosmsodde: to
detect and extract DDE/DDEAUTO links from MS Office documents, RTF
and CSVpyxswf: to
detect, extract and analyze Flash objects (SWF) that may be embedded
in files such as MS Office documents (e.g. Word, Excel) and RTF,
which is especially useful for malware analysis.oleobj: to
extract embedded objects from OLE files.rtfobj: to
extract embedded objects from RTF files.Tools to analyze the structure of OLE filesolebrowse:
A simple GUI to browse OLE files (e.g. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
documents), to view and extract individual data streams.olemeta: to
extract all standard properties (metadata) from OLE files.oletimes:
to extract creation and modification timestamps of all streams and
storages.oledir: to
display all the directory entries of an OLE file, including free and
orphaned entries.olemap: to
display a map of all the sectors in an OLE file.Projects using oletools:oletools are used by a number of projects and online malware analysis
services, includingACE,Anlyz.io,AssemblyLine,CAPE,CinCan,Cuckoo
Sandbox,DARKSURGEON,Deepviz,DIARIO,dridex.malwareconfig.com,EML
Analyzer,FAME,FLARE-VM,Hybrid-analysis.com,IntelOwl,Joe
Sandbox,Laika
BOSS,MacroMilter,mailcow,malshare.io,malware-repo,Malware
Repository Framework (MRF),MalwareBazaar,olefy,Pandora,PeekabooAV,pcodedmp,PyCIRCLean,REMnux,Snake,SNDBOX,Splunk add-on for MS O365
Email,SpuriousEmu,Strelka,stoQ,Sublime
Platform/MQL,TheHive/Cortex,TSUGURI Linux,Vba2Graph,Viper,ViperMonkey,YOMI, and probablyVirusTotal,FileScan.IO. And quite a fewother
projects on
GitHub.
(Pleasecontact meif you have or
know a project using oletools)Download and Install:The recommended way to download and install/update thelatest stable
releaseof oletools is to usepip:On Linux/Mac:sudo-Hpip install-Uoletools[full]On Windows:pip install-Uoletools[full]This should automatically create command-line scripts to run each tool
from any directory:olevba,mraptor,rtfobj, etc.The keyword[full]means that all optional dependencies will be
installed, such as XLMMacroDeobfuscator. If you prefer a lighter version
without optional dependencies, just remove[full]from the command
line.To get thelatest development versioninstead:On Linux/Mac:sudo-Hpip install-Uhttps://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zipOn Windows:pip install-Uhttps://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zipSee thedocumentationfor other installation options.Documentation:The latest version of the documentation can be foundonline, otherwise a
copy is provided in the doc subfolder of the package.How to Suggest Improvements, Report Issues or Contribute:This is a personal open-source project, developed on my spare time. Any
contribution, suggestion, feedback or bug report is welcome.To suggest improvements, report a bug or any issue, please use theissue reporting page,
providing all the information and files to reproduce the problem.You may alsocontact the authordirectly to provide feedback.The code is available ina GitHub
repository. You may use it to
submit enhancements using forks and pull requests.LicenseThis license applies to the python-oletools package, apart from the
thirdparty folder which contains third-party files published with their
own license.The python-oletools package is copyright (c) 2012-2022 Philippe Lagadec
(http://www.decalage.info)All rights reserved.Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.olevba contains modified source code from the officeparser project,
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