python-oletools is a package of python tools to analyze Microsoft 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 my olefile parser. 

If you want to test or use ExeFilter on Windows but you cannot or you do not want to install a Python interpreter, Portable ExeFilter is a simple solution. You just need to unzip it in any folder on a hard drive or a USB stick and it should run anywhere.

Presentation at Black Hat Europe 2019, about malicious VBA Macros and recent advances in the attack and defense sides.

olefile (formerly OleFileIO_PL) is a Python package to parse, read and write Microsoft OLE2 files (also called Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format or Compound Document File Format), such as Microsoft Office 97-2003 documents, vbaProject.bin in MS Office 2007+ files, Image Composer and FlashPix files, Outlook MSG files, StickyNotes, several Microscopy file formats, McAfee antivirus quarantine files, etc.

This article describes the PDF file format, related security issues and useful resources. [WORK IN PROGRESS]

Presentation at the Toulouse Hacking Convention 2017 (3rd March 2017) about Malicious VBA Macros: what they can do, how to analyze them, and how we can detect and block them before they hit end-users.

Updated on the 24th August 2017 for the International Cyber Security Summer School.

When developing tools related to MS Office files such as olefile and oletools, it is often necessary to test them on many different samples of various types and sizes. It is quite easy to find malicious samples using malwr.com, hybrid-analysis.com and VirusTotal, just to name a few (see my previous post about that topic). However, finding and downloading a large number of legitimate files is a different challenge. Here are some tips to do it:

"Would it be possible to add a method to olefile that returns bytes that are appended to an OLE file? I have a sample that has encoded EXE appended."

When Didier Stevens asked me that question some time ago, I thought it would be easy, a matter of minutes. Indeed, the OLE format (aka Microsoft Compound File Binary Format) is structured and well specified in MS-CFB.

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