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oletools

oletools - python tools to analyze MS OLE2 files (Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format) and MS Office documents, for malware analysis, forensics and debugging.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

oletools has 6.1M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.60.2, first published in 2012.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2024.

It is built on top of colorclass, easygui and msoffcrypto-tool. It is used by 23 tracked packages, including pcodedmp, rtfde and cisco-ai-skill-scanner.

GitHub topics include olefile, malware-analysis and ms-office-documents.

Downloads
Day
201.3K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.1M
Stars
3.4K
Forks
604
Issues
466
Version
0.60.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
77
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
161 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,081,500
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
6,081,500
Stars
3,368
Stars per 1k downloads
0.55
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
204,606
Month daily avg
202,717
Momentum
+0.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
734 days ago
Total releases
42
Releases/year
3.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
46
Monthly downloads
6,081,500
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
78
 
Issue Burden
138.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
573d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 71.3K
Windows 4.5K
macOS 953

Python Versions

3.12
55.0% 41.4K
3.11
14.1% 10.6K
3.10
13.0% 9.8K
3.13
11.5% 8.6K
3.14
6.5% 4.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
57.2K
2. DE DE
3.6K
3. NL NL
2.2K
4. CN CN
2.1K
5. SG SG
1.3K
6. AU AU
1.0K
7. HK HK
1.0K
8. IE IE
1.0K
9. JP JP
776
10. GB GB
719
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
October 15, 2012
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
0.60.2
Total Releases
42
Contributors
46
Open PRs
48
Archived
No
Author
Philippe Lagadec
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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