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

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Feed Name: SANS ISC Diary

Date Published: 2026-03-02

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

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Didier Stevens provides a concise technical walkthrough for extracting URLs from RTF files by inspecting embedded OLE objects and DOCX (ZIP) containers. He shows using oledump.py to enumerate OLE streams, identifying abused CLSIDs and URL-containing streams, then using zipdump.py and searching for the ZIP magic header (50 4B 03 04) to locate and extract URLs from compressed files embedded inside RTF documents.

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