This application is a Excel VBA Project Password recovery software designed to recover lost and forgotten passwords from password protected VBA project files such as.
How can I programmatically remove a known password from an Excel VBA project. To be clear: I want to remove the password from the VBA Project, not the workbook or.
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I've been asked to update some Excel 2003 macros, but the VBA projects are password protected, and it seems there's a lack of documentation... no-one knows the passwords. Is there a way of removing or cracking the password on a VBA project? Yes there is, as long as you are using a .xls format spreadsheet (the default for Excel up to 2003). For Excel 2007 onwards, the default is .xlsx, which is a fairly secure format, and this method will not work. As Treb says, it's a simple comparison. One method is to simply swap out the password entry in the file using a hex editor (see Hex editors for Windows). Step by step example: Excel will call a system function to create the password dialog box. If user enters the right password and click OK, this function returns 1. If user enters the wrong password or click Cancel, this function returns 0. After the dialog box is closed, Excel checks the returned value of the system function if this value is 1, Excel will "think" that the password is right, hence the locked VBA project will be opened. The code below swaps the memory of the original function used to display the password dialog with a user defined function that will always return 1 when being called. Backup the xls file Using a HEX editor, locate the DPB=... part Change the DPB=... string to DPx=... Open the xls file in Excel Open the VBA editor (ALT+F11) the magic: Excel discovers an invalid key (DPx) and asks whether you want to continue loading the project (basically ignoring the protection) You will be able to overwrite the password, so change it to something you can remember Save the xls file* Close and reopen the document and work your VBA magic ! *NOTE: Be sure that you have changed the password to a new value, otherwise the next time you open the spreadsheet Excel will report errors (Unexpected Error), then when you access the list of VBA modules you will now see the names of the source modules but receive another error when trying to open forms/code/etc. To remedy this, go back to the VBA Project Properties and set the password to a new value. Save and re-open the Excel document and you should be good to go ! Colin Pickard has an excellent answer, but there is one 'watch out' with this. There are instances (I haven't figured out the cause yet) where the total length of the "CMG=........GC=...." entry in the file is different from one excel file to the next. In some cases, this entry will be 137 bytes, and in others it will be 143 bytes. The 137 byte length is the odd one, and if this happens when you create your file with the '1234' password, just create another file, and it should jump to the 143 byte length. If you try to paste the wrong number of bytes into the file, you will lose your VBA project when you try to open the file with Excel. EDIT This is not valid for Excel 2007/2010 files. The standard .xlsx file format is actually a .zip file containing numerous sub-folders with the formatting, layout, content, etc, stored as xml data. For an unprotected Excel 2007 file, you can just change the .xlsx extension to .zip, then open the zip file and look through all the xml data. It's very straightforward. However, when you password protect an Excel 2007 file, the entire .zip (.xlsx) file is actually encrypted using RSA encryption. It is no longer possible to change the extension to .zip and browse the file contents. Colin Pickard is mostly correct, but don't confuse the "password to open" protection for the entire file with the VBA password protection, which is completely different from the former and is the same for Office 2003 and 2007 (for Office 2007, rename the file to .zip and look for the vbaProject.bin inside the zip). And that technically the correct way to edit the file is to use a OLE compound document viewer like CFX to open up the correct stream. Of course, if you are just replacing bytes, the plain old binary editor may work. BTW, if you are wondering about the exact format of these fields, they have it documented now: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd926151%28v=office.12%29.aspx For Excel 2007 onward you need to change your file extension to .zip In the archive there is a subfolder xl, in there you will find vbaProject.bin. Follow the step above with vbaProject.bin then save it back in the archive. Modify back your extension and voilà! (meaning follow steps above) Tom - I made a schoolboy error initially as I didn't watch the byte size and instead I copied and pasted from the "CMG" set up to the subsequent entry. This was two different text sizes between the two files, though, and I lost the VBA project just as Stewbob warned. Using HxD, there is a counter tracking how much file you're selecting. Copy starting from CMG until the counter reads 8F (hex for 143) and likewise when pasting into the locked file - I ended up with twice the number of "..." at the end of the paste, which looked odd somehow and felt almost unnatural, but it worked. I don't know if it is crucial, but I made sure I shut both the hex editor and excel down before reopening the file in Excel. I then had to go through the menus to open the VB Editor, into VBProject Properties and entered in the 'new' password to unlock the code. I hope this helps. I have been trying to get this done for hours, only to have error after error, this is by far the simplest way I found to do it !: 1- Download Excel Tool VBA Password Recovery you can find it here: http://descargar.cnet.com/Excel-Tool-VBA-Password-Recovery/3001-2077_4-75206791.html?hasJs=n&hlndr=1&dlm=0 Is a simple excel file 2- Open it and on the excel click on the 1st button that says VBA Password Recovery 3- Open your protected module 4- Press At + F11 and just open the password protected module like if it was not protected at all ! 5- Open the project properties and just set your own password or just take it out completely, re-save it and done ! This did it for me, opened an .xlsm file password protected. Change the extension of the .xlsm file to .zip. Open the .zip file (with WinZip or WinRar etc) and go to the xl folder. Extract the vbaProject.bin file and open it in a Hex Editor. Search for DPB and replace with DPx and save the file. Replace the old vbaProject.bin file with this new on in the zipped file. Change the file extension back to .xlsm. Open workbook skip through the warning messages. Open up Visual Basic inside Excel. Go to Tools > VBAProject Properties > Protection Tab. Put in a new password and save the .xlsm file. Close and re open and your new password will work.','url':'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1026483/is-there-a-way-to-crack-the-password-on-an-excel-vba-project','og_descr':'I've been asked to update some Excel 2003 macros, but the VBA projects are password protected, and it seems there's a lack of documentation... no-one knows the passwords. Is there a way of removin...
I ve been asked to update some Excel 2003 macros, but the VBA projects are password protected, and it seems there s a lack of documentation no-one knows the passwords.
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