pdf pwnage

Laziness and impatience are the twin virtues of any good IT worker, for they motivate you to automate things. Automation of analytical tasks eliminates variance and allows you to spend more time.... doing analysis. ISC had a diary entry about extracting flate-encoded PDF chunks. They had included some sample perl code that required byte-mangling and stuff. All well and good for those of you who like to do lots of manual analysis. For the truly lazy and impatient, there's podofo.

podofouncompress does the trick nicely:

%PDF-1.5 %M-bM-cM-OM-S 1 0 obj <>stream ^XM-^PIM-&M-AM-^GM-cM-^ZDM-Cf_M-sM-@5M-~^FM-^Q5M-...blah blah blah


Becomes

function re(count,what) {var v = "";while (--count >= 0) v += what;return v;} function start() {sc = unescape("%u9090%...


oh yeah, and captain krunkenstein totally had the drop on isc - he was patching spidermonkey when you were putting js in textareas.