I've forgotten the password to a word .docx file I made 9 months ago, is there any chance I can get in without knowing it?
Brute forcing would be fine, since I don't think I would've used a long password for this, but I don't know how to automate that either. Any ideas?
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The answer used to be John the Ripper, but I'm a decade out of date on this stuff, so it might not be any more.
Damn it's been long since I heard that name. Blast from the past.
Sometimes I just don't bother learning new stuff till the old stuff stops working for me. It's amazing how many really simple things people stroll past on their way to god knows where.
Reminds me of still using spybot search & destroy :p
John still works great! For modern documents you need a script to pull out the hash but other than that it'll do the job fine