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GitHub Repository: rapid7/metasploit-framework
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This module downloads PDF files and extracts the author's name from the document metadata.

Verification Steps

  1. Start msfconsole

  2. Do: use auxiliary/gather/http_pdf_authors

  3. Do: set URL [URL]

  4. Do: run

Options

URL

The URL of a PDF to analyse.

URL_LIST

File containing a list of PDF URLs to analyze.

OUTFILE

File to store extracted author names.

Scenarios

URL

msf auxiliary(http_pdf_authors) > set url http://127.0.0.1/test4.pdf
url => http://127.0.0.1/test4.pdf
msf auxiliary(http_pdf_authors) > run

[*] Processing 1 URLs...
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1/test4.pdf'
[*] HTTP 200 -- Downloaded PDF (38867 bytes)
[+] PDF Author: Administrator
[*] 100.00% done (1/1 files)

[+] Found 1 authors: Administrator
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed

URL_LIST with OUTFILE

msf auxiliary(http_pdf_authors) > set outfile /root/output
outfile => /root/output
msf auxiliary(http_pdf_authors) > set url_list /root/urls
url_list => /root/urls
msf auxiliary(http_pdf_authors) > run

[*] Processing 8 URLs...
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1:80/test.pdf'
[*] HTTP 200 -- Downloaded PDF (89283 bytes)
[*]  12.50% done (1/8 files)
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1/test2.pdf'
[*] HTTP 200 -- Downloaded PDF (636661 bytes)
[+] PDF Author: sqlmap developers
[*]  25.00% done (2/8 files)
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1/test3.pdf'
[*] HTTP 200 -- Downloaded PDF (167478 bytes)
[+] PDF Author: Evil1
[*]  37.50% done (3/8 files)
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1/test4.pdf'
[*] HTTP 200 -- Downloaded PDF (38867 bytes)
[+] PDF Author: Administrator
[*]  50.00% done (4/8 files)
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1/test5.pdf'
[*] HTTP 200 -- Downloaded PDF (34312 bytes)
[+] PDF Author: ekama
[*]  62.50% done (5/8 files)
[*] Downloading 'http://127.0.0.1/doesnotexist.pdf'
[*] HTTP 404 -- Downloaded PDF (289 bytes)
[-] Could not parse PDF: PDF is malformed
[*]  75.00% done (6/8 files)
[*] Downloading 'https://127.0.0.1/test.pdf'
[-] Connection failed: Failed to open TCP connection to 127.0.0.1:443 (Connection refused - connect(2) for "127.0.0.1" port 443)
[*] Downloading 'https://127.0.0.1:80/test.pdf'
[-] Connection failed: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=unknown state: unknown protocol

[+] Found 4 authors: sqlmap developers, Evil1, Administrator, ekama
[*] Writing data to /root/output...
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed