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This tool was built to fill a gap in the PDF assessment landscape. Didier Stevens's pdfid.py and pdf-parser.py are still the best game in town when it comes to PDF analysis tools but they lack in the visualization department and also don't give you much to work with as far as giving you a data model you can write your own code around. Peepdf seemed promising but turned out to be in a buggy, out of date, and more or less unfixable state. And neither of them offered much in the way of tooling for embedded binary analysis. Thus I felt the world might be slightly improved if I strung together a couple of more stable/well known/actively maintained open source projects (AnyTree, PyPDF2, and Rich) into this tool.
The Pdfalyzer is a command line tool (paralyze) as well as a library for working with, visualizing, and scanning the contents of a PDF. Motivation for the project was personal: I got hacked by a PDF that turned out to be hiding its maleficent instructions inside the font binary where it was missed by modern malware scanners (twitter thread) (more details)
This tool was built to fill a gap in the PDF assessment landscape. Didier Stevens's pdfid.py and pdf-parser.py are still the best game in town when it comes to PDF analysis tools but they lack in the visualization department and also don't give you much to work with as far as giving you a data model you can write your own code around. Peepdf seemed promising but turned out to be in a buggy, out of date, and more or less unfixable state. And neither of them offered much in the way of tooling for embedded binary analysis. Thus I felt the world might be slightly improved if I strung together a couple of more stable/well known/actively maintained open source projects (AnyTree, PyPDF2, and Rich) into this tool.
This tool was built to fill a gap in the PDF assessment landscape. Didier Stevens's pdfid.py and pdf-parser.py are still the best game in town when it comes to PDF analysis tools but they lack in the visualization department and also don't give you much to work with as far as giving you a data model you can write your own code around. Peepdf seemed promising but turned out to be in a buggy, out of date, and more or less unfixable state. And neither of them offered much in the way of tooling for embedded binary analysis. Thus I felt the world might be slightly improved if I strung together a couple of more stable/well known/actively maintained open source projects (AnyTree, PyPDF2, and Rich) into this tool.
This tool was built to fill a gap in the PDF assessment landscape. Didier Stevens's pdfid.py and pdf-parser.py are still the best game in town when it comes to PDF analysis tools but they lack in the visualization department and also don't give you much to work with as far as giving you a data model you can write your own code around. Peepdf seemed promising but turned out to be in a buggy, out of date, and more or less unfixable state. And neither of them offered much in the way of tooling for embedded binary analysis. Thus I felt the world might be slightly improved if I strung together a couple of more stable/well known/actively maintained open source projects (AnyTree, PyPDF2, and Rich) into this tool.
This tool was built to fill a gap in the PDF assessment landscape. Didier Stevens's pdfid.py and pdf-parser.py are still the best game in town when it comes to PDF analysis tools but they lack in the visualization department and also don't give you much to work with as far as giving you a data model you can write your own code around. Peepdf seemed promising but turned out to be in a buggy, out of date, and more or less unfixable state. And neither of them offered much in the way of tooling for embedded binary analysis. Thus I felt the world might be slightly improved if I strung together a couple of more stable/well known/actively maintained open source projects (AnyTree, PyPDF2, and Rich) into this tool.
for the ultra low level the Didier Stevens tools mentioned in the OP are rock solid, but for anything sort of in the middle zone - allowing you to work with the logical structure, having a consistent API, etc. etc. - yeah there's not much out there, which is why I ended up making The Pdfalyzer (and The Yaralyzer, which was basically just a side effect).