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I want to draw your attention to some great work Dr. Bontchev did.

pcodedmp.py is a VBA P-code disassembler. Microsoft Office documents contain VBA macros in several forms. They contain the source code, but also compiled P-code. Dr. Bontchev created a proof-of-concept document that executes P-code and does not contain the corresponding source code. Here is the output from his pcodedmp.py tool for his PoC document:

python pcodedmp.py -d poc2b.doc

Processing file: poc2b.doc
===============================================================================
Module streams:
Macros/VBA/ThisDocument - 1949 bytes
Line #0:
        FuncDefn (Sub / Property Set) func_00000078
Line #1:
        LitStr 0x001D "This could have been a virus!"
        Ld vbInformation
        Ld vbOKOnly
        Add
        LitStr 0x0006 "Virus!"
        ArgsCall MsgBox 0x0003
Line #2:
        LitStr 0x0008 "calc.exe"
        Paren
        ArgsCall Shell 0x0001
Line #3:
        EndSub

Dr. Bontchev also coded a plugin for oledump.

Didier Stevens
Microsoft MVP Consumer Security
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