hey everyone welcome back to vba to z
i'm lung pamai
and in today's video i'll introduce you
to a very easy to use
and a reliable password recovery tool
for excel from passweb.com
excel gives us ability to protect our
work whether to
protect sensitive data or prevent
accidental changes being made
but then the problem arises when we
forget the password or
when someone leaves the organization
without sharing password and the
scenario goes on
one of the drawbacks in excel is that
there is no inbuilt way to reset the
password
so in this kind of scenarios i use
buzzfeed excel recovery tool so before
we
jump to demo let me quickly highlight
some of the main features
in short buzzfeed for excel can be used
to recover
excel file open password you can also
use to unlock protector sheets and work
structures as well
and to top that it is now available at
the throwaway price so
do not forget to check out the video
description for the special offer link
this software uses latest decryption
algorithms making password recovery
easier
and at the same time keeping your
original data safe
it supports dot xls and dot xlsx formats
for
excel 97 all the way till excel 2019.
okay now let me give a quick
demonstration on how to use this tool
uh please note that the detailed user
guide is available
in the official website you can also um
you know download the free trial version
and try it out for yourself uh
close this and start up um password for
excel okay so when you open up the app
you'll see two options
the first one is to recover excel open
password
second one is to remove restrictions
like uh the excel worksheet password or
the structure log and so on so let's try
this first this one is easier
it's not tech time let me add a new
uh workbook from template
and let's see that i protect this with
abc123
it can be anything you know or symbols
or something like that okay
it does not matter and first i'm gonna
protect the worksheet
um so basically i copied from here
and i paste it here now it should not
allow me to
make any changes uh i can still add the
sheets
now i'll protect the structure as well
no i'm not able to you know add
any sheets as well i'm gonna save this
as
demo one and the format is xlsx
okay um i'm gonna close this bring up
the app and i'm gonna simply gonna drag
it here or you can browse as well
drag it here and click on remove so it
immediately does
just removes this so if you want to see
the output you can click on open folder
and the original file is not you know
changed this is the output and then
once you open you'll see that we are
able to change it okay so as simple as
that
um i'm gonna close this without saving
now coming back here
now let's try for excel open password
i'm gonna go back further so once you
click here you'll see these
three options uh three attack modes or
recovery modes
so first one is the dictionary attacks
so once you click on settings you'll see
that the first time you download this
application you'll see
an option to download the latest
dictionary if available
and then once you download it will go to
where the software has been installed
with the file unlocker
underscore dictionary.text and you can
also create your custom dictionary for
example you click on add you can browse
for the file
for example let's say that your you have
very commonly used
password um that you maintain a list of
then you can
also simply create a text file with
different you know passwords like this
okay
and then you can simply save as uh let's
call this custom
dictionary something like that and then
um
you should be able to browse from here
yeah so you click here
browse browse your dictionary open and
that's how it is
so for now i'll just leave this part as
this because this one has you know like
about seven million passwords
i verified this you know records count
by running one of this code
um i basically copied you know this
dictionary from the software location to
my desktop
this file so if i go here this file is
about 73 mb
and if i just use a simple vv code to
print out what is the total lines of
code
then it will basically give me like it
has about
seven million records in it okay so
that's how i
came to know that it has about that much
records
okay um now uh let's try
this first you know like this is the
fastest
because it's going through all the lists
of you know available
uh possible passwords that are listed in
the dictionary so first let's try this
out
let's reuse the same file um demo one
this one is still logged and i can save
as
and then i'll call this as demo2
i'll add a password um so for this
password let's say that
we want to use uh percentage maybe a b
c d so that it does not take too much
time for us
abcd123 i'll just
use this as a password and
put it here now that's uh
some more tips but just give me a moment
so now this file has been password
protected
if i go into
this demo demo too so it's asking for
password now
yeah now if i let me just verify that
the password is correctly
entered okay so
uh it works now let me try and bring
this
one here now and so at the moment saying
that
uh you know the password is unknown and
once i click on this it's basically
going to go through
uh the list of all the you know password
available in the dictionary which is
this dictionary yeah
and let me click on recover
uh so yeah i'm gonna fast forward if
it's taking time
but it took me around uh
one minute one minute took around you
know like
eight to ten thousand records um you
know
try out so it's quite fast but it also
depends a little bit on your
computer you know configuration the ram
and the memory available
and the processor so that will have a
little bit of impact on the speed
okay so that took about less than two
minutes to recover this password
so now we can copy this uh it tells you
exactly what the password is so you can
copy this
and then you can go and unlock the file
okay so that's one way of uh you know
recovering the password using
dictionary attack and as i've said is
around like seven million records so
you know possibility is quite high and
whenever there is the latest dictionary
it's going to be available here for you
to download again
okay so now for the second one here um
we're gonna open again demo one and save
as with the new password
for this we'll use a bit simpler
password because it will take too much
time
um if it is too complex but uh just to
give you
familiarity how to you know filter down
um
and narrow down the search of the
password okay so
let's say that this is um
instead of abc123 let's try a3
uh maybe a3b one two
c uh let's let's try this as a password
just six characters yeah so i'll put a
password
and the password and let's call this
demo tray
and let me try and reopen this
okay there it is okay so the password
has been saved successfully
now let's try to recover you know using
this
mask attack uh so here basically you can
you know specify if you have an idea
about
how much you know like the password link
was
then it becomes easier for you to filter
you know
filter down so that it does not try too
many combinations
so uh now we know for this one that it
is six characters so i'm
gonna set this to six minimum password
and
maximum is also six so i'm going to
leave this as it is
and now we know um you know here for
example it's um
using a number and a character
alphabet so um let me just uncheck all
this and then
go in here and then i'll say okay
my password will probably have abc and
then
there are no symbols uh there are
numbers which are
one two three you can even try more but
for
the sake of time i'm just gonna you know
cut this short
lesser for now like this okay so now you
can see that
it's highlighted a bit that some of them
are selected in this category
if you have a prefix or suffix you can
also add those here
so that you know it will try out all of
those
together uh so the more combinations the
more
uh you know length it is
the query is going to take a little bit
you know time to
crack okay now um
we will try and bring that file
the new file demo tree
so this is the one with this password
e3b12c
yeah so click on recover
okay so it took about i think it took
more than two minutes to recover you
know
give us this result okay so
that uh that is uh you know how to use
the mask attack
again you can customize you know uh with
more symbols and then try
those from your end and then the final
one is the bruise
of force attack this is the one which
takes
most time because it's gonna try on all
the combinations starting from a
and then a a and then you know all the
number
combinations capital and then lower case
uppercase and
all this together yeah so it's going to
keep trying to run
for hours so i won't be able to
demonstrate that properly here
but yeah you can try that option if
these two options does not work
in the upcoming weeks i'll share a few
more useful apps from pazfab
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thank you so much for watching
and have a great day bye