PDFResurrect - PDF Analysis and Scrubbing Utility
About
PDFResurrect is a tool aimed at analyzing PDF documents. The PDF format allows for previous document changes to be retained in a more recent version of the document, thereby creating a running history of changes for the document. This tool attempts to extract all previous versions while also producing a summary of changes between versions. This tool can also "scrub" or write data over the original instances of PDF objects that have been modified or deleted, in an effort to disguise information from previous versions that might not be intended for anyone else to read.
This project is released under the GNU GPLv3 license. So have at it!
Many individuals were consulted on this and provided suggestions, including Tele, Remad, Derez, Count, and Sunpuke. Special thanks to Brent, not really part of the 757 crew, but aided in proofreading the paper. Thanks guys!
News
August 10, 2008Spelling correction release v0.04 is out.
This release corrects a misspelling in the URL for the license location.
August 2, 2008
Initial release of PDFResurrect (v 0.03). Swipe a copy here. And for your reading pleasure, the whitepaper discussing this tool is also available.
Downloads
- PDFResurrect Tool
- PDFResurrect v0.04(tar.gz) or (tar.bz2) August 10, 2008
- PDFResurrect v0.03(tar.gz) or (tar.bz2) August 2, 2008
- Documents
- Faith in the Format: Unintentional Data Hiding in PDFs August 1, 2008
Contact
This project is maintained and written by Matt Davis (enferex).
Questions, suggestions, comments, coffee dates welcome.
Matt Davis (mattdavis9@gmail.com)