Word password recovery
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What version of word are you using?
Older ones used to be opened with openoffice
Not free, but I have used this before:
https://www.elcomsoft.co.uk/aopr.html
Not affiliated in any way
The free version used to give you the first three chars of the password.
Older ones used to be opened with openoffice
Not free, but I have used this before:
https://www.elcomsoft.co.uk/aopr.html
Not affiliated in any way
The free version used to give you the first three chars of the password.
Last edited by BlkKnight; 05 April 2018 at 09:24 PM.
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Not sure if you will be able to convert it to a docs file (lots of online programs offering to do it if you have a Google) but this seems to be a fairly straight forward way of getting into password protected Word files...
Originally Posted by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30752525/i-forgot-the-password-to-open-a-word-document-how-can-i-retrieve-the-password
The file needs to be in .docx format, if it is .doc convert it to .docx:
- Create a back-up copy of the file.
- Change the extension from .docx to .zip.
- Open new .zip file and extract all files.
- In the extracted folder go to to word\settings.xml.
- Open settings.xml and remove the code from <w:documentProtection to /> and save the file.
- Copy the new settings.xml to the original .zip file and overwrite the old one.
- Rename the .zip to .docx and open file which is now protection free!
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Do you know how old the doc is? I've got a password cracker but it's ancient (circa 2001!) so probably no good if a recent version of office but could be worth a try if you get stuck.
I've just tried .doc format from Office 2016 and it couldn't open it so only any good if it was created with an old version of office.
I've just tried .doc format from Office 2016 and it couldn't open it so only any good if it was created with an old version of office.
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All the tools you need are here - SADD.io you will need to cloud host the file somewhere (dropbox) to be able to get at it.
Spin up the Kali VDI session - hashcat and Johntheripper should be there. If the file isn't sensitive, send it across I should be able to sort it out.
Spin up the Kali VDI session - hashcat and Johntheripper should be there. If the file isn't sensitive, send it across I should be able to sort it out.
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