Analyzing MIME Files: a Quick Tip

Published: 2023-10-01
Last Updated: 2023-10-01 07:51:42 UTC
by Didier Stevens (Version: 1)
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In my blog post "Quickpost: Analysis of PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs" I explain how to search through MIME files with my tool emldump.py to find suspicious/malicious content:

I have now released a new version of emldump.py, that can output the content of all parts in JSON format.

This is done with option --jsonoutput:

This JSON output can then be consumed by different tools I develop. One of them is file-magic.py, a tool to identify files using the libmagic library.

Here file-magic.py identifies all parts of the MIME file:

And it becomes clear that the JPEG parts is not actually an image, but an MSO/ActiveMime file that can contain VBA code.

Didier Stevens
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