Advanced PDF
Password Recovery
Instantly unlock PDF restrictions and enable editing, printing and copying of locked PDF files. Recover original PDF passwords with configurable attacks. Break 40-bit encryption in under a minute with patented Thunder Tables technology.
- Unlock PDF restrictions (editing, printing and copying)
- Break 40-bit encryption in under a minute with Thunder Tables
- Recover original plain-text passwords with configurable attacks
- Decrypt PDF documents encrypted with 40-bit, 128-bit RC4 and 256-bit AES encryption
Supports: Adobe PDF, 40-bit and 128-bit RC4 encryption, 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption, PDF with printing, copying and editing restrictions.
Description
Instantly Remove PDF Restrictions
Get access to password-protected PDF files quickly and efficiently! If there is no “password to open”, or if you know it, you can instantly unlock restricted PDF documents by removing printing, editing and copying restrictions. Advanced PDF Password Recovery recovers or instantly removes passwords, protecting or locking PDF documents created with all versions of Adobe Acrobat or any other PDF application.
Recover PDF Passwords
Can’t open a password-protected PDF document? You can break the “password to open” by running a highly sophisticated GPU-accelerated attack. Elcomsoft Advanced PDF Password Recovery effortlessly combines dictionary attacks with brute force. Use a combination of masks, patterns and rules to reduce the number of passwords to try. State-of-the-art GPU acceleration enables today’s high-performance video cards to break PDF passwords faster than ever.
Strong Password Recovery
If the PDF is protected with a strong 128-bit or 256-bit key, Advanced PDF Password Recovery performs a range of attacks on the PDF file document to obtain the original password. But even then, you’re not left without options!
Additional Notes
DRM and Third-Party Security Plug-ins: Advanced PDF Password Recovery does not support PDF files protected using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology or third-party party security plug-ins such as FileOpen (FOPN_fLock).
Version 5.0 works with PDF files created in Adobe Acrobat X (with 256-bit AES encryption), with multi-core and multi-processor support and hardware acceleration using NVIDIA cards.
Compatibility Chart
| APDFPR Std | APDFPR Pro | APDFPR Ent | |
| Supports Adobe Acrobat from 3.x to X | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supports 40-bit RC4 encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supports 128-bit RC4 encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supports 128-bit AES encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supports 256-bit AES encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove restrictions from protected PDF files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Decrypt PDF files if ‘open’ password is known | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Brute-force attack on ‘open’ password | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dictionary attack on ‘open’ password | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guaranteed recovery for 40-bit encryption (takes several days) | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-processor, multi-core support[1] | N/A | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPU acceleration with NVIDIA cards[2] | N/A | ✓ | ✓ |
| Removing digital signatures | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Removing JScript code | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Removing form fields | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guaranteed recovery for 40-bit encryption using Thunder tables® (takes several minutes) | – | – | ✓ |
- Multi-processor and multi-core are available only for PDF files that use 256-bit AES encryption (Adobe Acrobat 9).
- GPU acceleration is available only for PDF files with 256-bit AES encryption (Adobe Acrobat 9) and requires a compatible video card.
System requirements
Windows
- Windows 10/8.1/8/7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Windows Server 2019/2016/2012
- Enterprise version only: 4 GB of free space on hard disk; USB flash drive is recommended
Trial Limitations
The trial version decrypts only the first 10% (but at least one page) of the documents and replaces all other pages with blank (empty) ones. Passwords longer than four characters cannot be recovered with a brute-force attack. Some dictionary-attack options are disabled. The “Use pre-computed hash tables” option is not available.
Uninstallation procedure: To uninstall the product, follow the standard procedure via Control Panel—Programs and Features or use the Uninstall link from the product’s folder in the Windows Start menu.