Feb 25 2009

PDFCrack

PDFCrack -Windows version Password Recovery Tool for PDF Document

About PDFCrack

PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux (other POSIX-compatible systems should work too) tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. It is small, command line driven without external dependencies. The application is Open Source (GPL).

Features

  • Supports the standard security handler (revision 2, 3 and 4) on all known PDF-versions
  • Supports cracking both owner and userpasswords
  • Both wordlists and bruteforcing the password is supported
  • Simple permutations (currently only trying first character as Upper Case)
  • Save/Load a running job
  • Simple benchmarking
  • Optimised search for owner-password when user-password is known

Download(pdfcrack-0.11.zip, 630k)

for source code or other platform version , please visit Pdfcrack Project Page.

this one can get password only, if you want to remove password from PDF document, please use PdfCrypt

P.S.

Here is a Japanese tutorial,

Windows上でもPDFファイルのパスワードを総当たりで解析できるフリーソフト「PDFCrack」

Donations are welcome,

4 Comments

  • By linky1124, September 1, 2009 @ 3:46 pm

    Thank you!!

  • By admin, December 22, 2009 @ 11:27 pm

    If you want to remove the PDF password(either Owner Password or User Password), you can try Remove PDF Password online application, it’s free, built on Google App Engine(GAE), Supports Standard 40-bit, 128-bit, AES-128 encryption
    http://rubypdf.appspot.com/pdfdecrypt.html

  • By dm4s, January 13, 2011 @ 1:32 pm

    thank you…

  • By Jordan, June 27, 2011 @ 10:33 pm

    THis only works if the document is 10 mbs

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