.PST to wordlist

[jimby]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a solution to convert Outlook 2010 .pst files to wordlists. During investigations, I often encounter encrypted files in .pst archives, and I am pretty sure that 80% of those .pst archives do contain the password of those encrypted files. Therefore, I would like to convert all mail conversations (subject/body) in the archive to a wordlist/dictionary which would allow me to run a dictionary attack on the files.

So far, I managed to convert the .pst format in Python to readable text with readpst, but I have not found a solution to convert those files to a large wordlists.

How would you guys approach this problem? Am I looking in the right direction or are there other/better ways to extract a wordlist out of a .pst archive? 

Greetings,

Tedix

If you have access to a Unix host try massaging your above "readable text file" :

    cat readable_text_file | tr " " "\n" | sort | uniq > wordlist1.txt

That should get you started.  I'm sure it will need a lot of cleanup, particularly if there are still binary or Unicode characters in the file.

You might want to compare that output with

    strings PSTFILE | sort | uniq > wordlist2.txt


or maybe combine the two and uniq the result:

    cat wordlist1.txt wordlist2.txt | sort  | uniq > wordlist3.txt



Best,
Jim B.