{"id":4171,"date":"2026-06-08T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4171"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:00:39","slug":"microsoft-excel-word-and-powerpoint-files-including-malicious-url-are-detected-in-sharepoint-onedrive-and-teams-on-elements-collaboration-protection","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/microsoft-excel-word-and-powerpoint-files-including-malicious-url-are-detected-in-sharepoint-onedrive-and-teams-on-elements-collaboration-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint files including malicious URL are detected in SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams on Elements Collaboration Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint files including malicious URL were detected in SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious URL in text file(.txt) was not detected.<br \/>Also, malicious URL shared in teams chat was not detected.<\/p>\n<p>Are these all expected bahavior?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>This feature was implemented in our Security Cloud on February 2024<\/p>\n<p>Regarding this question, our Security Cloud does not look at the file extension, but it looks at the file type.<br \/>File Types that are currently supported with this behavior are:<\/p>\n<p>MicrosoftExcel\u00a0<br \/>MicrosoftWord\u00a0<br \/>MicrosoftPowerPoint\u00a0<br \/>PDF \u00a0<br \/>OpenDocumentPresentation\u00a0<br \/>OpenDocumentSpreadsheet\u00a0<br \/>OpenDocumentText<\/p>\n<p>As for PDF file, URLs are needed to be linked with Hyperlink.<br \/>Press enter or space after typing in the URL before saving it as PDF, the URL will be linked with hyperlink, which will trigger detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint files including malicious URL were detected in SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious URL in text file(.txt) was not detected.<br \/>\nAlso, malicious URL shared in teams chat was not detected.<\/p>\n<p>Are these all expected bahavior?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[101],"class_list":["post-4171","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000011958","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:00:39","import_hash":"f07ff8990306f7553d1ba067c7cbe799f517615c","vanilla_article_id":31366,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/31366-microsoft-excel-word-and-powerpoint-files-including-malicious-url-are-detected-in-sharepoint-onedrive-and-teams-on-elements-collaboration-protection","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":124,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}