Advanced Office Password Recovery

With latest versions of popular office suites such as Microsoft Office 2019 implementing the strongest security, the success rate of pure brute-force attacks is low even in GPU-accelerated environments. Advanced Office Password Recovery employs a social engineering approach and implements smart attacks targeting human psychology.

Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Recovery makes use of every bit of information you know about a password. Just specifying the company's security policy can reduce the time of the attack tenfold. The number and type of characters used in the password, and whether it contained any special symbols helps tremendously in reducing the time to recover the password.

The tool can decrypt password-protected Word .doc documents and Excel .xls spreadsheets saved as "compatible" within a limited timeframe. No need to perform lengthy attacks while a 40-bit encryption key can be crunched quickly and efficiently, and more importantly, with a guaranteed positive result.

Advanced Office Password Recovery unlocks documents created with Microsoft Office Word and Excel 97 and 2000, as well as documents saved with Microsoft Office XP and 2003 in Office 97/2000 Compatibility Mode.

In addition to Microsoft Office family, Advanced Office Password Recovery can instantly unlock many WordPerfect Office document and all files produced by Lotus SmartSuite.

Most passwords used by human beings are based on a single word or a combination of words from a certain language. Before reverting to the brute force attack, Advanced Office Password Recovery performs a full-scaled comprehensive attack based on a dictionary. Use a small built-in dictionary or specify your own dictionaries no matter the language, and Advanced Office Password Recovery will attempt single words and word combinations in different cases and variations.

Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Recovery is the industry leader implementing highly sophisticated types of attacks. Dictionary attacks are accompanied with mutations that substitute, duplicate or modify password characters in a way used by typical computer users to increase their password strength.

Mask attacks allow putting any knowledge about the password to work. However little is known about the password, every little bit of information helps reduce the number of passwords to try. By specifying the approximate length or structure of the password and entering characters that were used or not used, an expert can reduce the number of passwords to try by a great deal.

Combination attacks allow combining dictionary words from two different dictionaries, automatically adding separators as needed.

Finally, the Hybrid attack enables experts to create extremely flexible rules describing passwords that were likely to be chosen by a particular user. The rules are described in a file in a format compatible with industry-standard password recovery tools.

More information about advanced attacks is available in a Knowledge Base article.

If you’re blank about the password, Advanced Office Password Recovery will revert to the last resort: the brute force attack. Thanks to the highly optimized low-level code Advanced Office Password Recovery provides the best-in-class performance for the brute-force password recovery.

Unlock password-protected Word documents and Excel spreadsheets by breaking the encryption instead of recovering the original password. Advanced Office Password Recovery can decrypt Microsoft Office documents saved in certain legacy formats with a guaranteed result and in guaranteed time. It does not take long to try all possible encryption keys in the 40-bit space. A modern PC can effectively unlock a document in just hours, while using the patented Thunder Tables technology can cut this time to just seconds for most files.

The unique Thunder Tables® technology developed by ElcomSoft uses pre-computed tables to significantly speed up the recovery of 40-bit keys for Microsoft Word files. The technology will unlock a protected Word document in a matter of seconds instead of days. By pre-computing the hash tables and providing them on a USB thumb drive, Advanced Office Password Recovery can effectively unprotect Microsoft Word documents with 40-bit encryption.

For Microsoft Excel spreadsheets the pre-computed Rainbow Tables are provided, allowing to unlock about 97% of compatible Excel spreadsheets. The complete set of tables (Thunder Tables® for Word and Rainbow Tables for Excel) is delivered with certain editions of Advanced Office Password Recovery (see Compatibility Chart for details).