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This new version of pdf-parser.py brings 2 new features; the idea came to me during private & public trainings I gave on malicious documents (if you are interested in a training, please ). The statistics option (-a –stats) has been enhanced with a search for keywords section: In this section, the result of searches for particular keywords (that might indicate a malicious PDF) is displayed: you get the number of hits followed by the indices of the objects that contain this keyword. In the example above, we see that object 11 contains JavaScript. Remark that this section is the result of a search command (-s): search in pdf-parser is not case-senstive and partial (unlike PDFiD).
That explains why /AA is found in object 37, while it’s actually /Aacute: pdf-parser will also read file pdfid.ini (if present) so that the personal keywords you added to PDFiD are also used by pdf-parser. –overridingfilters is a new option: it allows for the processing of streams with a different filter (or filter chain) than the one specified in the object’s dictionary. Use value raw to obtain the raw stream, without filtering. MD5: 27D65A96FEAF157360ACBBAAB9748D27 SHA256: 3F102595B9EAE5842A1B4723EF965344AE3AB01F90D85ECA96E9678A6C7092B7. It’s the second time now that a friend reports to me that PDFiD produces no output at all when a pdf is analyzed.
In both cases, the filename was something like sample1.pdf (a file you could find in Internet Explorer’s cache, for example). PDFiD can process multiple files, and accepts UNIX shell-style wildcards. Not only. and?, but also.
So with a filename like sample1.pdf, PDFiD is actually looking for a file with filename sample1.pdf. Which it doesn’t find, and thus produces no output. About two years ago, when first a friend reported this, I added option -l –literal. If you use this option, then PDFiD will do no wildcard expansion, and will thus find file sample1.pdf. Recently, another friend had the same problem. And was not aware of the existence of option -l. This new version of PDFiD will display a warning when you use wildcard characters in filenames (without option -l) and when no files match.
Like this: I also renamed option –literal to –literalfilenames, to be consistent across my tools. MD5: 9B835D9E934A7AA7E68C3649A7AA5DAF SHA256: 4DD43D7BDA885C5A579FC1F797E93A536E1DB5A4ABA69D3B0250E0. The article explains how PDF documents can refer to a resource via UNC paths. This is done using PDF names /GoToE or /GoToR.
My tool can now be extended to report /GoToE and /GoToR usage in a PDF file, without having to change the source code. You just have to edit the pdfid.ini file (or create it) to include these names, like this: keywords /URI /GoToE /GoToR Using pdfid configured like this on a “credential stealing PDF” gives the following result: pdfid.ini has to be located in the same directory as pdfid.py.
And remember that names in the PDF language are case-sensitive. TL;DR: PDFs protected with 40-bit keys can not guarantee confidentiality, even with strong passwords. When you protect your PDFs with a password, you have to encrypt your PDFs with strong passwords and use long enough keys. The PDF specification has evolved over time, and with it, the encryption options you have. There are many encryption options today, you are no longer restricted to 40-bit keys. You can use 128-bit or 256-bit keys too. There is a trade-off too: the more advanced encryption option you use, the more recent the PDF reader must be to support the encryption option you selected.
Older PDF readers are not able to handle 256-bit AES for example. Since each application capable of creating PDFs will have different options and descriptions for encryption, I can not tell you what options to use for your particular application. There are just too many different applications and versions. But if you are not sure if you selected an encryption option that will use long enough keys, you can always check the /Encrypt dictionary of the PDF you created, for example with my (in this example /Length 128 tells us a 128-bit key is used): Or you can use to encrypt an existing PDF (I’ll publish a blog post later with encryption examples for QPDF). But don’t use 40-bit keys, unless confidentiality is not important to you: I first showed (almost 4 years ago) how PDFs with 40-bit keys can be decrypted in minutes, using a commercial tool with rainbow tables. Illustrates this.
Later I showed how this can be done with free, open source tools:. But although I could recover the encryption key using Hashcat, I still had to use a commercial tool to do the actual decryption with the key recovered by Hashcat. Today, this is no longer the case: in this series of blog posts, I show how to, how to and how to, all with free, open source tools. Overview of the complete blog post series:.: cracking the password of a PDF and decrypting it.: cracking the encryption key of a PDF.: decrypting a PDF with its encryption key. Cracking Encrypted PDFs – Conclusion: don’t use 40-bit keys (what you are reading now). I performed a and a, both PDFs are part of a.
The encryption key is derived from the password. It’s not just based on the password only, but also on metadata. This implies that different PDFs encrypted with the same user password, will have different encryption keys. When you recover the user password of an encrypted PDF, you can just use it with PDF readers like Adobe Reader: they will ask you for the password, you provide it and the PDF will be decrypted and rendered. But when you recover the key of an encrypted PDF, you can not use it with PDF reader: there is no feature that will allow you to input a key in stead of a password. The only method I knew to decrypt a PDF document with its encryption key, was to use: Now I worked out a second method: I modified the source code of so that it will accept encryption keys too. It’s a quick and dirty hack, I did not add a new option to QPDF but I “hijacked” the –password option.
If the value to the option –password starts with string “key:”, then QPDF will not derive the key from the provided password, but it will use the key provided as hexadecimal characters. Here is how I use it to decrypt the “tough” PDF: I also made a small modification to the –show-encryption option, to display the encryption key: Update: I had an email exchange with Jay Berkenbilt, the author of QPDF, and he will look into this patch and possibly add a new key option to QPDF. If you are interested in my modified version of QPDF, you can find the modified source code files and Windows binaries here: MD5: 57E1A5A232E12B45D0A927181A1E8C3B SHA256: 6F17E095B38AE72F2DDCE86057D2BA1C567B07FEF78B8A93413495 Update: this is the complete blog post series:.: cracking the password of a PDF and decrypting it.: cracking the encryption key of a PDF. Cracking Encrypted PDFs – Part 3: decrypting a PDF with its encryption key (what you are reading now).: don’t use 40-bit keys.
After cracking the, I’m cracking the “tough” PDF (harderencryption). Using the same steps as for the “easy” PDF, I confirm the PDF is encrypted with a user password using 40-bit encryption, and I extract the hash. Since the password is a long random password, a brute-force attack on the password like I did will take too long. That’s why I’m going to perform a brute-force attack on the key: using 40-bit encryption means that the key is just 5 bytes long, and that will take about 2 hours on my machine.
The key is derived from the password. I’m using again, but this time with hash mode 10410 in stead of 10400. In this series of blog posts, I’ll explain how I decrypted the (John wanted to know how easy it is to crack encrypted PDFs, and started a challenge).
Here is how I decrypted the “easy” PDF (encryptiontest). From John’s blog post, I know the password is random and short. So first, let’s check out how the PDF is encrypted. Confirms the PDF is encrypted (name /Encrypt): can tell us more: The encryption info is in object 26: From this I can conclude that the standard encryption filter was used. This encryption method uses a 40-bit key (usually indicated by a dictionary entry: /Length 40, but this is missing here). PDFs can be encrypted for confidentiality (requiring a so-called user password /U) or for (using a so-called owner password /O). PDFs encrypted with a user password can only be opened by providing this password.
PDFs encrypted with a owner password can be opened without providing a password, but some restrictions will apply (for example, printing could be disabled). Can be used to determine if the PDF is protected with a user password or an owner password: This output (invalid password) tells us the PDF document is encrypted with a user password. I’ve written some about decrypting PDFs, but because we need to perform a brute-force attack here (it’s a short random password), this time I’m going to use to crack the password.
First we need to extract the hash to crack from the PDF. I’m using to do this. Remark that John the Ripper (Jumbo version) is now using (a Perl program), because there were some issues with the Python program (pdf2john.py). For example, it would not properly generate a hash for 40-bit keys when the /Length name was not specified (like is the case here).
However, I use a patched version of pdf2john.py that properly handles default 40-bit keys. Here’s how we extract the hash: This format is suitable for John the Ripper, but not for hashcat. For hashcat, just the hash is needed (field 2), and no other fields. Let’s extract field 2 (you can use awk instead of csv-cut.py): I’m storing the output in file “encryptiontest – CONFIDENTIAL.hash”. And now we can finally use hashcat. I regularly get ideas to improve my tools when I give (private) training, and last week was not different.
This new version of pdfid.py adds a /URI counter, to help identify PDF documents with embedded URLs, used for phishing or social-engineering users into clicking on links. I did not hardcode this new counter into the source code of pdfid.py, but it is listed in a new config file: pdfid.ini. You too can add your own identifiers to this configuration file.
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Stevens Center Originally a 1929 silent movie theatre, the Stevens Center is a magnificently restored neoclassical theatre located in downtown Winston-Salem, N.C. Re-opened in April 1983, the Stevens Center is the primary performance space for University of North Carolina School of the Arts as well as for the Winston-Salem Symphony, Piedmont Opera Theatre and several other local and state arts organizations. The Stevens Center is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with a two-channel hearing assistance system. A total of 1,364 seats on two levels offer superb sightlines and exceptional acoustics.
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