Crack Password-Protected Microsoft Office Files, Including Word Docs & Excel Spreadsheets

Microsoft Office files can be password-protected in order to prevent tampering and ensure data integrity. But password-protected documents from earlier versions of Office are susceptible to having their hashes extracted with a simple program called office2john. Those extracted hashes can then be cracked using John the Ripper and Hashcat. Extracting the hash from a password-protected […]