#!/usr/bin/env node /** * pdf-corruption-lab * Generates a small, fully synthetic corpus of damaged PDF files with a known * kind and severity of damage, plus a manifest.json describing each file. * Intended for testing and benchmarking PDF repair / recovery tools. * * Usage: node generate.js [outputDir] */ const fs = require('fs'); const path = require('path'); const { PDFDocument, rgb, StandardFonts } = require('pdf-lib'); // 2x2 PNG used to make sure the base document contains an image stream. const TEST_IMAGE_BASE64 = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAACCAYAAABytg0kAAAAFElEQVQIW2NkwAJGDjACU2M4wAgAJu4BCHgB5hQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='; const toLatin1 = (bytes) => new TextDecoder('latin1').decode(bytes); const fromLatin1 = (str) => Uint8Array.from(str, (c) => c.charCodeAt(0) & 0xff); async function buildBasePdf() { const doc = await PDFDocument.create(); doc.setTitle('pdf-corruption-lab base document'); const font = await doc.embedFont(StandardFonts.Helvetica); const p1 = doc.addPage([595, 842]); p1.drawText('pdf-corruption-lab: base document', { x: 40, y: 780, size: 20, font, color: rgb(0.1, 0.3, 0.8) }); p1.drawText('Page 1 contains text and a vector rule.', { x: 40, y: 740, size: 11, font }); p1.drawRectangle({ x: 40, y: 760, width: 515, height: 3, color: rgb(0, 0.6, 0.6) }); const p2 = doc.addPage([595, 842]); p2.drawText('Page 2 contains an embedded raster image.', { x: 40, y: 780, size: 14, font }); const png = await doc.embedPng(Buffer.from(TEST_IMAGE_BASE64, 'base64')); p2.drawImage(png, { x: 100, y: 450, width: 120, height: 120 }); const p3 = doc.addPage([595, 842]); p3.drawText('Page 3 contains text only.', { x: 40, y: 780, size: 14, font }); for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) { p3.drawText(`Line ${i + 1}: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.`, { x: 40, y: 740 - i * 18, size: 10, font }); } return doc.save({ useObjectStreams: false }); } // Each scenario receives (bytes, text) and returns damaged bytes. const scenarios = [ { id: 'missing_eof', severity: 1, description: 'The trailing %%EOF marker is removed. Structure is otherwise intact.', apply: (_b, t) => fromLatin1(t.replace(/%%EOF\s*$/, '')), }, { id: 'invalid_startxref', severity: 2, description: 'startxref points to a non-numeric value; the xref table itself is valid.', apply: (_b, t) => fromLatin1(t.replace(/startxref\s+\d+/, 'startxref\nINVALID')), }, { id: 'scrambled_xref', severity: 3, description: 'All xref offsets are replaced with bogus values and startxref is invalid.', apply: (_b, t) => { const pos = t.lastIndexOf('xref\n') !== -1 ? t.lastIndexOf('\nxref') + 1 : t.lastIndexOf('xref'); const head = t.substring(0, pos); const count = (t.match(/\n\d{10} \d{5} n/g) || []).length + 1; const rows = Array.from({ length: count - 1 }, (_, i) => `${String(99999 - i * 111).padStart(10, '0')} 00000 n \n`).join(''); return fromLatin1(`${head}xref\n0 ${count}\n0000000000 65535 f \n${rows}trailer\n<< /Size ${count} >>\nstartxref\nINVALID\n%%EOF\n`); }, }, { id: 'bad_root_reference', severity: 3, description: 'The trailer /Root points to a non-existent object and startxref is -1.', apply: (_b, t) => { let s = t.replace(/\/Root \d+ \d+ R/, '/Root 9999 0 R'); const pos = s.lastIndexOf('trailer'); if (pos !== -1) s = `${s.substring(0, pos)}trailer\n<< /Size 9999 >>\nstartxref\n-1\n%%EOF\n`; return fromLatin1(s); }, }, { id: 'truncated_75', severity: 4, description: 'File cut at 75% of its length: xref, trailer and EOF are lost, last object is incomplete.', apply: (b) => b.slice(0, Math.floor(b.length * 0.75)), }, { id: 'truncated_55', severity: 5, description: 'File cut at 55%: roughly half of the objects are lost; only partial content is recoverable.', apply: (b) => b.slice(0, Math.floor(b.length * 0.55)), }, ]; async function main() { const outDir = path.resolve(process.argv[2] || path.join(__dirname, 'output')); fs.mkdirSync(outDir, { recursive: true }); const base = await buildBasePdf(); const baseText = toLatin1(base); fs.writeFileSync(path.join(outDir, 'base_valid.pdf'), base); const manifest = { generator: 'pdf-corruption-lab', base_file: 'base_valid.pdf', base_pages: 3, files: [], }; for (const s of scenarios) { const damaged = s.apply(base, baseText); const name = `damaged_${s.id}.pdf`; fs.writeFileSync(path.join(outDir, name), damaged); manifest.files.push({ file: name, damage: s.id, severity: s.severity, description: s.description, bytes: damaged.length }); console.log(`ok ${name} (severity ${s.severity}, ${damaged.length} bytes)`); } fs.writeFileSync(path.join(outDir, 'manifest.json'), JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2)); console.log(`\nWrote ${manifest.files.length + 1} PDFs and manifest.json to ${outDir}`); } module.exports = { scenarios, toLatin1, fromLatin1 }; if (require.main === module) { main().catch((e) => { console.error(e); process.exit(1); }); }