Oletools Service

This Assemblyline service extracts metadata and network information, and reports on anomalies in Microsoft OLE and XML documents using the Python library py-oletools and hachoir.

NOTE: This service does not require you to buy a licence and is preinstalled and working after a default installation.

Configuration Parameters (set by administrator):

• MACRO_SCORE_MAX_FILE_SIZE: A macros section will not be flagged in results if the size is greater than this value. (Default value: 5 * 1024**2)
• MACRO_SCORE_MIN_ALERT: Chains.json contains common English trigraphs. We score macros on how common these trigraphs appear in code, skipping over some common keywords. A lower score than this config value indicates more randomized text, and random variable/function names are common in malicious macros. (Default value: 0.6)
• METADATA_SIZE_TO_EXTRACT: If OLE metadata is larger than this size (in bytes), the service will extract the metadata content as a new file (Default value: 500)
• IOC_PATTERN_SAFELIST: If an IOC contains one of the strings in the list, Oletools will ignore it unless in deep scan mode. (Default value: [])
• IOC_EXACT_SAFELIST: If an IOC is one of the strings in the list, Oletools will ignore it unless in deep scan mode. (Default value: [])

Execution

The Oletools service will report the following information for each file when present:

1. Individual Macros: (AL TAG: technique.macro)

   • SHA256 of each section. (AL TAG: file.ole.macro.sha256)
   • Suspicious strings. (AL TAG: file.ole.macro.suspicious_strings)
   • Network indicators.

2. Embedded document streams and OLE information:

   • Name and metadata (author, company, last saved time, etc). AL TAGS:

       file.ole.summary.title,
       file.ole.summary.subject,
       file.ole.summary.author,
       file.ole.summary.comment,
       file.ole.summary.last_saved_by,
       file.ole.summary.last_printed,
       file.ole.summary.create_time,
       file.ole.summary.last_saved_time,
       file.ole.summary.manager,
       file.ole.summary.company,
       file.ole.summary.codepage
     

   • CLSIDs (flags known malicious values). (AL TAG: file.ole.clsid)

3. Suspicious XML/OLE Stream features:

   • FrankenStrings IOC Patterns module results.
   • Adobe Flash content.
   • Base64 encoded content.
   • Hex encoded content.

4. MSO DDE Links (AL TAG: file.ole.dde_link)

5. Possible VBA stomping. Determined when difference in suspicious content exists between macro dump and pcode dump.

6. Service will extract:

   • All macros content.
   • All pcode content.
   • Suspicious OLE streams and xml.
   • DDE Links

7. If in deep scan mode, all OLE streams will be extracted and hachoir will run its deep object analysis.