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March 7, 2025

Troubleshooting Tip: How to troubleshoot FortiSandbox which is not scanning the URL in the Office files when doing an On-Demand forced scan inside VM

  • March 7, 2025
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Description This article describes how to troubleshoot the issue of the URL in the Office file not scanning when doing an On-Demand forced scan inside the VM.
Scope FortiSandbox.
Solution

When scanning Office files that contain embedded URLs by using On-Demand scan with forced scan inside the VM, the job details show no information regarding the URL in the files.

 

Below are some steps that can be checked to troubleshoot the issue.

 

  • Run test-network command to check the network connection for VM internet access (via port3) is okay.

 

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  • Enable Sandboxing on embedded URLs for PDF, Office, or HTML documents. Run the command: sandboxing-embeddedurl -e -turl

 

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