How to Install and Uninstall pdfcrack Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 17,2025

1. Install "pdfcrack" package

Please follow the instructions below to install pdfcrack on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pdfcrack
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pdfcrack" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall pdfcrack on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pdfcrack
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pdfcrack package on Kali Linux

Package: pdfcrack
Version: 0.20-1
Installed-Size: 89
Maintainer: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: pdf-viewer
Size: 33160
SHA256: 5f356009d9f1cf932ceacc741cc92141608b83eed33c07384f1453c4989903f5
SHA1: b984a7404480408ec2c2ec438e29c4306c92e413
MD5sum: 2a72d5322b4cf53629f69fc1f7af639f
Description: PDF files password cracker
PDFCrack is a simple tool for recovering passwords from pdf-documents.
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It should be able to handle all pdfs that uses the standard security handler
but the pdf-parsing routines are a bit of a quick hack so you might stumble
across some pdfs where the parser needs to be fixed to handle.
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The main PDFCrack features are:
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- Supports the standard security handler (revision 2, 3 and 4) on all known
PDF-versions.
- Supports cracking both owner and userpasswords.
- Both wordlists and bruteforcing the password are supported.
- Simple permutations (currently only trying first character as Upper Case).
- Save and load a running job.
- Simple benchmarking.
- Optimised search for owner-password when user-password is known.
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This program can be used in forensics investigations or similar activities,
to legal password crack.
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://pdfcrack.sf.net
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, security::cryptography, works-with-format::pdf,
works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pdfcrack/pdfcrack_0.20-1_amd64.deb