Short answer: No [0]
Long answers:
* No, SSN detection only works for html see this call is_text_or_html().
* No but... w3af is open source and you can modify the plugin to
make it work like you want. It seems to make sense to add this
feature, so if you like I can guide you.
[0]
https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/blob/master/w3af/plugins/grep/ssn.py#L54
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Rappold, Randy <rra...@lsuhsc.edu> wrote:
> Can w3af scan the contents of PDF files for SSNs?
>
>
>
> We’re evaluating w3af as a tool to scan our website for SSN content. A new
> profile was created using the web-spider crawl and ssn grep plugins. This
> locates possible SSNs on web pages but not in PDF documents. A review of
> all plugins doesn’t appear to include an option for PDFs.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
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