Microsoft Office Password Recovery Using GPU

This thesis describes the password recovery of Microsoft Office documents by expanding an existing tool Wrathion. The thesis explains the issue of digital document protection, modern encryption and hashing algorithms and rudiments of OpenCL standard. Next, the analysis of structure of MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint documents is performed, including all the versions since 1997. Using this knowledge, we create a draft and an implementation of improved DOC module for newer versions of the encryption, as well as a draft and an implementation of brand new modules for XLS and PPT formats and their newer variants DOCX, XLSX and PPTX. After that, we measure performance of the new modules and compare it with other competing password recovery tools