/PDFCrack

A Password Recovery Tool for PDF-files

Primary LanguageCGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

PDFCrack

A Password Recovery Tool for PDF-files

fork from http://pdfcrack.sourceforge.net/ (0.19)

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 user passwords
  • Both wordlists and brute forcing the password is supported
  • Simple permutations (currently only trying first character as Upper Case)
  • Save/Load a running job
  • Simple benchmarking
  • Optimize search for owner-password when user-password is known

Compile

Linux or macOS

make

Windows

 __WIN32__=1 make

Usage

$ pdfcrack --help