Logically, what is explained in this article will be to recover a password that we have lost or forgotten, which could mean the loss of data from a PDF due to our bad memory. The article we wrote a few days ago was for convenience, while this is to be able to access a file that we cannot access. The tool that we are going to talk about today is called pdfcrack.
You have to bear in mind that these types of tools do not work miracles and that, depending on the strength of a password, it may never be recovered. The system used to decrypt the password is brute force and the process is long, not so much because of what we have to do but because of the time it could take to finish the job.
We detail the process below:. NOTE: : for the clueless, when we put the name of a file we refer to the complete path. This means that either we go into its directory in the terminal before executing the process with only the name of the file or we drag it to the terminal and in distributions like Ubuntu we remove the quotes.
The process can be very long, and more considering that pdfcrack just use a processor. To speed up the process, we can add characters to test it, for which we will use the -c option. This will give you a starting point and can be helpful if we always use a pattern.
For example, the following command would be if I used passwords with the word "car" and numbers. At the moment we press it, pdfcrack will try to save the state of the process, which means that we can follow it later.
Indeed, it is very rare for a password to be less than 4 characters. It is therefore not necessary to test all possible passwords from 1 to 3 characters. If you think the maximum size is 8 characters, you can also specify it. In addition to this, it is possible to define the charset to use. Indeed, if you think that the password only contains lower cases and numbers, you can define it like this:.
For this example, the password is 5 characters length and just contains lower cases and a number. Your email address will not be published. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. After we published a report, Apple has quickly fixed the problem. In iOS This effectively rules our brute-force attacks, only allowing for highly targeted dictionary attacks.
Another example. Microsoft appears to tighten security with every major release of Microsoft Office. While files saved by Office applications could be recovered near instantly, Office was already much more secure:. Office documents become significantly slower to break with only 30 passwords per second using a CPU or about passwords per second using a GPU.
Office is slower yet. You can see that, for example, breaking a Microsoft Office document with a CPU alone via plain brute force can help you find a 6-character passwords consisting of lower-case letters only in days on a CPU or in about 10 hours if you use a single video card with a powerful GPU for hardware acceleration.
If you have better plans for the next millennium, you can build a powerful cluster to speed up the attack. From there, you can start adding computers to your cluster. The use of special characters increases the time required to break the password by the factor of 33, meaning that the password you thought would only take a day to recover will suddenly require a full month of crunching.
You can play with the number of possible combinations by using the following password calculator:. Calculating the number of passwords consisting of those character sets is as easy as raising the number of possible combinations to a power of password length.
Brute force — this tries all possible password combinations starting with a password that is a blank field. If it fails they add another bit and try again until they find it. The shorter the password the quicker the attack works. Rainbow table — a list of pre-computed hashes the numerical value of an encrypted password of all possible password combinations for any given hashing algorithm. How long does it take to crack PDF Passwords? Time to crack the Document Open password will depend on: the strength of the password length and character combination — a strong password will take longer to crack i.
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