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Update: pecheck.py Version 0.7.8

This new version of pecheck.py, a tool to analyze PE files, comes with a small update to option -l.

The overview of embedded PE files produced with option -l P now reports the hash of the embedded PE file without overlay:

By default, this is an MD5 hash, but can be changed to your liking using environment variable DSS_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHMS, like this:

I will introduce this environment variable to my other tools with new releases.

 

pecheck-v0_7_8.zip (https)
MD5: 616CD9159316FC2100BE3E87C5C26B2C
SHA256: F734EFFFA17E4EE6CA64A67D18340B3347B72C4B1C7522BAF1B7D720FABA2389

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Update Of My PDF Tools

This is an update of my PDF tools.

There are a couple of bug fixes for pdf-parser and pdfid.

And 2 new features in pdf-parser, inspired by a private training on maldoc analysis I gave last week. I often get good ideas from my students, and sometimes, even I get a good idea in class 🙂 .

Option -o can now be used to select multiple objects: separate the indices by a comma.

There’s a new environment variable, PDFPARSER_OPTIONS, that can be used to provide extra options you want to include with each execution of pdf-parser.py. This is useful for option -O, an option to parse stream objects.

It’s actually best to always parse stream objects, i.e. always use option -O. But I decided not to make this an option that is on by default, so that the behavior of pdf-parser would remain unchanged. I consider this important for the many people that rely on a predictable behavior of pdf-parser, like teachers and students of infosec trainings where my tools are used/mentioned.

However, always including option -O is tedious and error prone. So now you can have best of both worlds, by defining an environment variable with name PDFPARSER_OPTIONS and value -O.

And finally, I started to add a man page (option -m), like I do with many of my other tools. This is a work in progress: for the moment, it points to my free PDF analysis e-book that explains the use of pdfid and pdf-parser.

pdf-parser_V0_7_3.zip (https)
MD5: 7EB1713631D255B36BC698CD2422C7EB
SHA256: D4D5AC9C26A9D8FEF65CE58A769D3F64A737860DC26606068CCDD3F04FDEA0D7

pdfid_v0_2_6.zip (https)
MD5: 9CCE332914A6C76410F04B7C35DA3155
SHA256: 95F7C91EEFB561F3F3BE9809ED339D85E7109BAA7E128EF056651EE018DBDBA0