Playing around with strings extracted from 300K unique samples gave me a top 100 strings (as usual with statistics, don’t trust it too much as my sampleset is obviously biased)
-in any case, as you can see, code snippets (‘SVWU’), Borland strings and a few DLL/API names are highly prevalent:
4521498 SVWU 4008104 Left 3858393 Width 3849138 Height 3651737 SVW3 34282840 ZYYd 2631375 QSVW 1599950 OnClick 1494950 TImage 1470032 ParentFont 1446438 ffffff 1445277 TabOrder 1418101 Font.Color 1418071 Font.Style 1418037 Font.Name 1417970 Font.Height 1416432 Font.Charset 1209103 Z]_^[ 1208133 TObject 1110345 SVWUQ 1105144 Sender 1102700 Cursor 1093772 crHandPoint 975848 SVWQ 965275 Integer 913541 Caption 879263 BorderStyle 863747 ANSI_CHARSET 863173 Z_^[ 845681 MaxLength 838228 TEdit 830785 clWindowText 829954 bsNone 820032 TLabel 701264 Color 692145 fsBold 685461 AutoSize 682814 OnChange 637873 Self 636857 YZ]_^[ 629787 YZ^[ 588869 Transparent 586796 Boolean 584700 DEFAULT_CHARSET 561879 Verdana 536738 fffffffff 516176 Controls 503455 MS Sans Serif 494892 Graphics 491681 OnKeyPress 476489 YZ_^[ 475843 kernel32.dll 463060 Classes 443913 Forms 392601 Visible 379947 clBlack 349269 ffffffffffff 345758 GetProcAddress 341988 PasswordChar 323528 bvNone 320939 GetModuleHandleA 303360 ParentColor 301265 OnMouseDown 299551 clWhite 295778 Y_^[ 294468 Picture.Data 288858 JFIF 287837 BevelOuter 287467 BevelKind 287029 LoadLibraryA 278017 SUVW 272626 bkFlat 269891 GWgw 260838 QQQQSV 254750 SSSSS 252854 user32.dll 249821 ExitProcess 244095 CloseHandle 243855 WriteFile 243140 GetModuleFileNameA 239566 VVVVV 236286 rdf:Description> 231692 Enabled 231218 Menus 229567 XYZ 225944 RegCloseKey 225145 UUUUUU 223352 Alignment 220329 rdf:Description rdf:about="" 219210 MessageBoxA 216162 String 215643 fffffffffffffff 213682 CreateFileA 211018 Sleep 210632 advapi32.dll 209798 VirtualAlloc 207239 Arial 206138 KERNEL32.DLL 202769 RegQueryValueExA 200100 Ctl3D