Didier Stevens

Tuesday 31 March 2020

Update: msoffcrypto-crack.py Version 0.0.5

Filed under: Encryption,My Software,Update — Didier Stevens @ 0:00

This new version of msoffcrypto-crack.py, a tool to crack encrypted MS Office documents, comes with a new option to generated a password dictionary based on the filename of the document.

Option -p allows the user to provide a dictionary file. Use value #f to generate a dictionary based on the filename: This will generate a dictionary of all possible substrings of the filename.

I had to analyze an encrypted spreadsheet yesterday, and the password was in the name, like this:

msoffcrypto-crack_V0_0_5.zip (https)
MD5: 1514DA367DCFF7051AB117266CE65BD3
SHA256: FEEFDD89134083EA19936494C8FCBD05804B3B9C0D4C5FBAFE06578D466B50AE

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