Jul 21, 2022 · That's because it's just running through the predefined .txt file you feed it, the password complexity doesn't matter, it'll stop running once it reaches the password in the list (I'm assuming you're using office2john and something like the rockyou.txt file) To improve the speed of this brute-force process, use a more powerful device

Oct 6, 2021 · Yeah, like other people are saying, if you know the idea of the password it would help a ton. If you know that the password is something like randompassword731 (or something containing an actual word) then a brute force guesser like hashcat, Hydra, JTR, etc would work (if only it might take several hours or days.)

Nov 11, 2019 · The code posted by VePe ( answered Nov 18 '18 at 8:03 on Stack over flow; LINK) works perfectly for Excel 2016 - 64 bit version as i have tested it and it has successfully cracked the VBA project password not only of a particular WB which i was looking for but it also removed the password of VBAproject of Personal WB as well.

Oct 6, 2020 · Open the file, go into VBE, ignore or just hit OK when warning comes up. In Tools -> Security, give it a new password. Save the file and close. When you open the file again, you should be able to use the new password to access VBA project. If Excel 2007 or later (likely xlsm), change file extension to ".zip".

Apr 9, 2021 · Here is a link to a step by step guide to unlock any Excel sheet in less than 5 minutes without knowing the password How to unprotect Excel sheet without password and here is a video demonstrating all the steps:

Nov 18, 2023 · seems like this password manager uses it's own password storage format called *.keypass. A more general and known password manager called "KeePass" is there, which uses open source file format called ".kbdx" :https://keepass.info/. There are different password managers available for Keepass password manager ecosystem.

Feb 1, 2018 · The password algorithm is similar to that of PST files, which just compares the string against a hash. This type of password protection can also trivially be removed by saving the sheet as xml, deleting the password tag, and importing it again.

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Sep 8, 2022 · "We don’t know anything about the password" = it’s literally a shot in the dark, with all due respect to all great tools, personally I’ve never came across a tool (paid or not btw) that doesn’t work by brute forcing, without a relevant dictionary, you still may succeed as you may succeed shooting in the dark, if you gonna try billions ...

Jul 5, 2021 · If it is at the workbook level where you need to enter the password for the workbook to even open, you cannot use VBA to bruteforce this in any timely manner unless you get exceedingly lucky. If the password protection is at the worksheet level, then you are able to use the file extension renaming method to get at the sheet.xml properties to ...