Didier Stevens

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Quickpost: New Versions of PDFiD and pdf-parser

Filed under: My Software,PDF,Quickpost — Didier Stevens @ 21:54

A new version of PDFiD (V0.0.10): to deal with PDF samples trying to evade detection by preceding the header with some random bytes, I use less stringent conditions to identify a PDF file. If PDFiD finds keyword %PDF in the first 1024 bytes of a file, it assumes it’s a PDF file and starts analyzing it.

A new version of pdf-parser (v0.3.7):

  • added support for filters /LZWDecode and /RunLengthDecode
  • added a –dump option to extract the unfiltered data of a stream object (useful when the data is not actually compressed, but a payload)
  • testing the Python version before execution

Both can be downloaded on the PDF Tools page.


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