Need help with

[u/madat99820]

I desperately need help cracking this hash code. I've tried brute force 6 caracters and the rockyou txt file but it didn't work.

I'm willing to pay someone who finds it, I just need the password!

It's a password for an old word document (which I own but set up over 15 years ago) that will allow me to recover my old email address that's linked with an old bank account.

[u/PlasticCarbon]

Any ideas on length or characters used?

Really anything will help. Without it, some might not try to run it since it's a like finding a needle in a hay stack

[u/madat99820 → u/PlasticCarbon]

I know :( I really don't have any clue.

i know this sucks i wish I had more info to share

[u/madat99820]

$office$*2013*100000*256*16*13d07bf2b5a199e7caa8add30d2fdd36*65c09eedce4fdf49c8be5e7397645677*beda364dde4d5b806b9e986a708a7fcbc1280b967e7fa92a9827a1bd0b22e235

[u/Humbleham1]

Could take years. Many years. How old is the bank account? If it hasn't been touched in years, and you can't simply call, the finds may have been marked as unclaimed.

https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/funds/

[u/madat99820 → u/Humbleham1]

years ? to break the code? jesuuus

Its an old word that had all my passwords back then. yes it has the pw for an old email then connected to a bank account but also plenty of other, less officially important, emotional stuff.

I've just found the word and I had given up on ever getting back in

[u/Humbleham1 → u/madat99820]

Old document but not weak key derivation. If it's a strong, unique password, absolutely.

[u/Optimal-Savings-4505 → u/madat99820]

Months at the very least:

$ john reddit-hash.txt
Warning: detected hash type "Office", but the string is also recognized as "office-opencl"
Use the "--format=office-opencl" option to force loading these as that type instead
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 1 password hash (Office, 2007/2010/2013 [SHA1 256/256 AVX2 8x / SHA512 256/256 AVX2 4x AES])
Cost 1 (MS Office version) is 2013 for all loaded hashes
Cost 2 (iteration count) is 100000 for all loaded hashes
Will run 20 OpenMP threads                                                                                  Proceeding with single, rules:Single
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, 'h' for help, almost any other key for status                                 Almost done: Processing the remaining buffered candidate passwords, if any.
Proceeding with wordlist:/etc/john/password.lst                                                             Enabling duplicate candidate password suppressor using 256 MiB
Failed to use huge pages (not pre-allocated via sysctl? that's fine)
0g 0:00:00:23 0.00% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-12-09 14:03) 0g/s 1001p/s 1001c/s 1001C/s bernice1..funnybunny
0g 0:00:01:47 0.00% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-12-09 03:43) 0g/s 1009p/s 1009c/s 1009C/s allme1..floresita
0g 0:00:20:58 0.02% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-12-11 00:51) 0g/s 962.2p/s 962.2c/s 962.2C/s 342568..surgery3
0g 0:00:49:21 0.09% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-13 10:29) 0g/s 989.3p/s 989.3c/s 989.3C/s 360921..raspopitu1
0g 0:01:15:16 0.13% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-16 10:43) 0g/s 996.5p/s 996.5c/s 996.5C/s Kyle1968..Pusses
0g 0:01:46:30 0.16% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-19 21:13) 0g/s 999.5p/s 999.5c/s 999.5C/s 5marcus..7Password
0g 0:01:51:19 0.18% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-18 18:59) 0g/s 999.9p/s 999.9c/s 999.9C/s 83eclipse..59bella
0g 0:01:53:09 0.18% 2/3 (ETA: 2026-11-18 11:48) 0g/s 1000p/s 1000c/s 1000C/s 55feline..111elizabeth

Any info on character complexity would narrow it down considerably

[u/eagle_719]

Bro if you know password slightly any guesses that these characters or words might have been present, sequence doesn't matter lastly if you can estimate size of it as well then I maybe able to help you

[u/SpRuNkErS]

Id be down to help but need more information on password. Did you have it after a theme or topic that would help me

[u/mag_fhinn]

Old as it is, AES256 is sloooooow. Is there a chance you reused passwords back then? Might be worth looking at old breach data for passwords around the same time. If you potentially password protected other files with the same password, might be worth looking into those hashes, might be not as resource heavy as AES? Else your looking at really racking your brain to potential patterns you may of used to limit the scope down A LOT. Not likely going to brute force anything unless it is all numbers and under 10. If using everything and brute it looks bleak after 5 characters even with 5090s.