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The Microsoft Office Visualization Tool is an integral part of the Redmond company's security strategy, adapted to counteract the evolution of the threat environment, specifically the increasing focus attackers place on file format-based vulnerabilities and exploits. In this sense, OffVis is designed to equip IT professionals, but also security researchers and security product vendors with the resources necessary to get an insight into the Microsoft Office binary file format. Microsoft explained that the tool enabled users to deconstruct .doc-, .xls- and .ppt-based targeted attacks. Statistics made available in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, Volume 6, issued in April 2009, indicate that 91.3% attacks against Office documents involve exploits for a single vulnerability, which users could have already patched via a security update offered over two years ago. OffVis can in this regard be used by professionals to further boost user protection against attacks invol!
ving Office binary files. Microsoft explained that the tool was capable of graphically illustrating key data structures and records for Office Word, Office PowerPoint and Office Excel, streamlining access, as the record can be navigated easily. In fact, just by hovering the mouse over an Office document sample the Microsoft Office Visua...
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