Re: OT: Tool for sanitizing MS office documents?

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

Ahh, and we found one of the original posts;;

From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () ghettot org>
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Automated metadata recovery for document
collections    (tool release)
Cc: pentest () securityfocus com
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:18:49 +0200 (CEST)
To: full-disclosure () netsys com

Hi,

After my short write-up on results of automated change tracking data
recovery for Microsoft Word documents found at microsoft.com [1], I've
received a couple of inquiries from pen-testers who asked me about the
tool I used to find the data, and stated that something like this would be
a good addition to their everyday testing methodology.

A beta version of the tool to automatically detect and index change
tracking information in a collection of Word documents published on a
website (or stored on disk, mounted via SMB/NFS, etc) is now available for
download:

  http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/therev.tgz

If there is enough interest, I'll try to maintain this tool and add
options to gather all other types of security-relevant metadata (such as
usernames, MAC addresses and whatnot) as well.

Regards,
mz

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/strikeout/




This moight be the tools originally requested.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Clement Dupuis:
>
> > This is why so many companies have adopted the PDF format for document
> > exchange.  What you see is what it is, no hidden code or revision bits.
>
> This view is a bit too simplistic.  PDF files can contain layers, and
> the text that is nicely covered by those black rectangle may still be
> present in the document.
>
> In general, PDF documents are not too bad an idea, though.  At least
> it avoids the embarrassment of embedded OLE objects which contain far
> more information that is actually visible in the parent document (and
> I don't think Microsoft's tool addresses this because it would
> castrate the document).
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