Hello!
Please bare with me, as I haven't had much practice in bashing away at hashcat. I have, however, given it my all, Googled any and everything similar to my situation, but I haven't gotten anywhere after 2-ish months of trial and error.
The situation:
I know this type of brute force might be a very non-efficient way to do it, but I haven't gotten any usable passwords from any other method (such as rockyou.txt, and ?l?l?l?l? etc..., so now I'm taking the slow and steady route.
I'm using -m 9700 because it's the only one that is accepted by hashcat for the format I am using.
Anyone out there willing to tell me what on earth is going on, or what I should be doing differently?
Please bare with me, as I haven't had much practice in bashing away at hashcat. I have, however, given it my all, Googled any and everything similar to my situation, but I haven't gotten anywhere after 2-ish months of trial and error.
The situation:
- I have an excel file that is protected (several sheets in one file, and it's a VBA project, whatever that means).
- The file is .xls and probably made before 2007, and by Dutch people.
- I have legitimate access to the file and its contents.
- I used office2john.py to obtain this hash value from the file itself: Code:
$oldoffice$0*c3cbb67cfacc8c343d3f8bbeb03119f5*0d4348507d88a8ff217fbe91f555461f*f351c3330f7e47d451e2a53690da34ef - The command I am currently running is: Code:
hashcat.exe -m 9700 -a 3 $oldoffice$0*c3cbb67cfacc8c343d3f8bbeb03119f5*0d4348507d88a8ff217fbe91f555461f*f351c3330f7e47d451e2a53690da34ef --keep-guessing -o result.txt - This crack has up until now given me passwords (such as: qt2ptpk, t2sq4z9!, 03shcki*, 31b7i3n*, S3jjxiz1, K2dla0h4, t2sq4z9!, etc), but they're not able to unlock the protected sheet (or the entire excel sheet).
I know this type of brute force might be a very non-efficient way to do it, but I haven't gotten any usable passwords from any other method (such as rockyou.txt, and ?l?l?l?l? etc..., so now I'm taking the slow and steady route.
I'm using -m 9700 because it's the only one that is accepted by hashcat for the format I am using.
Anyone out there willing to tell me what on earth is going on, or what I should be doing differently?