Crack Powerpoint (or any other MS office file) Password!

Hi,

This is yet another of my success story. Recently one of my client throw me a Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt) file and asked me to crack it. I love when my clients throw me challenges!

I know that it is of course possible because previously I had crack a Microsoft Excel. But too bad I did not blog about it and now I even forgot how I did that hack. That is the reason why I am blogging now regarding this Powerpoint hack, I know I will forget soon, so better note it in blog rather than diary as it would benefit others as well.

My game started like this, I googled, googled, and googled for whole day and found only 1 software with the name of "Office Password Recovery Magic" which I got it with serial number so it was full-ware. But sad that the software was using "Brute-force Attack" as default if you know what I mean, it is something like the software will try inserting all possible characters and it will take hell a lot of time. Guess what? I run the software over-night on my server machine. Even after 1 day also could not hack it.

As you might know, I hate waiting, so once again, back to googling. This time I found "Advanced Office Password Recovery Professional (AOPRP)." It is a recommended tool for hacking MS Office files. I tried looking for the cracked version of it but did not find any. I did download some different version and unable to crack the software as version conflict. Finally I found the bundle pack which was nearly 66MB. Bundle pack consist of all Elcomsoft's software with the serial numbers.

I downloaded the bundle, installed only "Advanced Office Password Recovery 4.11 Professional". I used the given serial and the software was cracked. I run the software and opened the Powerpoint file. Take note that I install the software on my laptop as well as server. I run the software from the server as I doubt it would take another 1 or 2 days to complete the hacking of the Powerpoint through Brute-force attack.

AOPRP's default attack mode is dictionary. I proceed the attack and within less than 1 second, it showed me the password! Seriously! It took just 1 second? Hell, how dumb I was for running the previous software over-night?

See the attached screenshot: (password showed in just 1 second? Gosh, hackers are smarter)

If you drop to this blog while you are looking for software to hack and I am glad to share with you my knowledge and the software, download this:
http://reganrajan.com/useruploads/files/Advanced_Office_Password_Recovery_4.11_Professional.zip (serial number included)

If in case your file password is not dictionary password, then try the brute-force attack and give it some time.

Bottom line, as moral of the story; always use 14 digit above password and remember to include numbers and symbols when you want to protect your file. Example password: reganrajan*87#smart. This password would at least take 2 to 3 days to be hacked on brute-force attack (depend on your CPU speed as well). Only the person who is sincere to hack your file would wait until 3 days, duh!

Have fun kids! Ops, have funs guys!