PDF analysis tools

Usage

PDF analysis tools are typically used for data sanitizing, file analysis, malware analysis, malware research.

Users for these tools include forensic specialists, malware analysts, security professionals.

Tools

Popular PDF analysis tools

peepdf (PDF analysis)

digital forensics

Peepdf is a tool to see all the objects in the document. It shows suspicious elements and supports the most used filters and encodings. It can also parse different versions of a file, object streams, and encrypted files. With the installation of PyV8 and Pylibemu it provides Javascript and shellcode analysis wrappers too. Apart from this, it is able to create new PDF files, modify existent ones, and obfuscate them.

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