Quick Howto: ZIP Files Inside RTF, (Mon, Mar 2nd)

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In diary entry “Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files” I mentioned ZIP files.

There are OLE objects inside this RTF file:

 

They can be analyzed with oledump.py like this:

Options –storages and -E %CLSID% are used to show the abused CLSID.

Stream CONTENTS contains the URL:

We extracted this URL with the method described in my previous diary entry “Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files“.

But this OLE object contains a .docx file.

A .docx file is a ZIP container, and thus the URLs it contains are inside compressed files, and will not be extracted with the technique I explained.

But this file can be looked into with zipdump.py:

It is possible to search for ZIP files embedded inside RTF files: 50 4B 03 04 -> hex sequence of magic number header for file record in ZIP file.

Search for all embedded ZIP files:

Extract URLs:

 

Didier Stevens
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