[poppler] Encrypted malicious PDFs fails

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Sep 14 17:39:05 UTC 2017


El dimecres, 13 de setembre de 2017, a les 18:20:42 CEST, Alex va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a malicious PDF that fails to be detected properly apparently
> because it's encrypted in some way:

"Fails to be detected properly" by what?

Cheers,
  Albert


> 
> # podofopdfinfo /var/tmp/Invoice\ -\ NF22394519.pdf
> Error: An error 8 ocurred during uncompressing the pdf file.
> 
> 
> PoDoFo encounter an error. Error: 8 ePdfError_InternalLogic
>         Error Description: An internal error occurred.
>         Callstack:
>         #0 Error Source:
> /builddir/build/BUILD/podofo-0.9.1/src/base/PdfParser.cpp:209
>                 Information: Unable to load objects from file.
>         #1 Error Source:
> /builddir/build/BUILD/podofo-0.9.1/src/base/PdfParserObject.cpp:377
>                 Information: Unable to parse the stream for object 30 0 obj
> . #2 Error Source:
> /builddir/build/BUILD/podofo-0.9.1/src/base/PdfEncrypt.cpp:1137
>                 Information: CreateEncryptionInputStream does not yet
> support AES
> 
> Would someone be interested in investigating this? Am I missing
> something to properly detect and manage these?
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bqkp5okojma83b/Invoice%20-%20NF22394519.pdf?dl=0
> 
> Is there a legitimate reason to encrypt a PDF in this way? In other
> words, I can still see the contents and click on the malicious link,
> but apparently not view the meta information about it...
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