Document Signature Validator (DocSV)

Automation tool for searching known strings in an application's process memory to check whether a document contains a valid or invalid digital signature.

Start

Start the DocumentSignatureValidator.exe from the console with an XML config file as argument.

Supported file types

OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Open XML (OOXML), Portable Document Format (PDF)

Structure of an XML config file

<config>
	<application>
		<path>Path to the application to be tested</path>
		<overwriteprocessname>(optional) If the application starts a process whose name does not match the name of the .exe file</overwriteprocessname>
		<encoding>(optional) Encoding of the search strings: UTF-8 or UTF-16. Default: UTF-16</encoding>
		<teststring>(optional) String to test if the file was correctly loaded</teststring>
		<sigvalidstring>(optional) First valid signature string</sigvalidstring>
		<sigvalidstring2>(optional) Second valid signature string</sigvalidstring2>
		<siginvalidstring>(optional) First invalid signature string</siginvalidstring>
		<siginvalidstring2>(optional) Second invalid signature string</siginvalidstring2>
		<sigproblem>(optional) First signature has problems string</sigproblem>
		<sigproblem2>(optional) Second signature has problems string</sigproblem2>
		<wait>(optional) Time in seconds to wait for the application to load completely</wait>
		<minfoundvalues>(optional) Minimum number of identical signature strings found to count the search as successful</minfoundvalues>
	</application>
	<files>
		<path>Path to the files to be tested</path>
		<arguments>(optional) Argument with which the file will be opened</arguments>
		<extension>File extension of the files to be tested</extension>
	</files>
	<output>
		<path>Path for the result file and screenshot directory</path>
	</output>
</config>

XML parser

This tool uses the RapidXml parser http://rapidxml.sourceforge.net/license.txt

Version

0.1.0.1