Access Database Program

[Mkz]

Originally Posted by ontryit

I just wonder how did you get the password?
What tool used?

"strings"
It's in clear text all over the binary file (*.mde).

Just run something like "strings HPPSXP2002_XP.mde | findstr PWD" and you can see for yourself. I'm using the SysInternals strings binary, which lists both Ascii and Unicode occurrences.

Had this not been in cleartext, a password cracker for the *.mdb files would need to be searched for (can't remember any at the moment) or intercept API calls to the Access runtime to check which connection strings were used by the *.mde to open the database files.