Installing PyV8 in Kali for use with peepdf

PyV8 in Kali for peepdf.txt

Installing PyV8 in Kali for use with peepdf

Kali 2016.1 rolling comes with peepdf 0.3, but it doesn't at present have PyV8 for javascript. peepdf may tell you this sad news. Here, we find out how to be happier.

First, we solve some dependencies. v8 relies upon boost. The dependencies aren't packaged up nicely, so builds will fail. You can fix that with an apt-get of dev packages

	apt-get install libboost-python-dev
	apt-get install libboost-thread-dev

Then we get v8 and PyV8 from old googlecode and put them in /usr/local/src

	cd /usr/local/src
	svn checkout http://pyv8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pyv8
	svn checkout http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ v8

Next we teach pyv8 how to find v8

	export V8_HOME=/usr/local/src/v8
	export PyV8=/usr/local/src/v8	# probably unnecessary

Finally, we build and install. The build process will update v8, pyv8, and large prereqs (GYP) from googlecode

	cd /usr/local/src/pyv8
	python setup.py build
	python setup.py install

Run peepdf and see it find pyv8, to parse javascript


Future work would involve redoing the PyV8 install so it uses the updated Google git version of v8 and ancillary parts. Start here: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki and https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Using%20Git (don't just directly clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git or http://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror)