README.md

Malicious PDF Generator ☠️

Generate ten different malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh

Used for penetration testing and/or red-teaming etc. I created this tool because i needed a third party tool to generate a bunch of PDF files with various links.

Usage

python3 malicious-pdf.py burp-collaborator-url

Output will be written as: test1.pdf, test2.pdf, test3.pdf etc in the current directory.

Purpose

• Test web pages/services accepting PDF-files
• Test security products
• Test PDF readers
• Test PDF converters

Credits

• Insecure features in PDFs
• Burp Suite UploadScanner
• Bad-Pdf
• A Curious Exploration of Malicious PDF Documents
• "Portable Document Flaws 101" talk at Black Hat USA 2020
• Adobe Reader - PDF callback via XSLT stylesheet in XFA
• Foxit PDF Reader PoC, DoHyun Lee
• Eicar test file by Stas Yakobov

In Media

• Brisk Infosec
• Daily REDTeam
• Malicious PDF File | Red Team | Penetration Testing
• John Hammond - Can a PDF File be Malware?

Todo

• Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader RCE when processing TTF fonts, CVE-2023-26369
• Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Vulnerability, CVE-2021-28550