2. What is PDF
• Portable document format
• Open standard for documentation
• By adobe systems in 1993
• Complete description of fixed layout flat
document, text graphics ,fonts and other
information
• Was proprietary then became official in 2008
5. Current techniques
• Bruteforce
– Trying each and every possible combination of
character set
• Dictionary
– Making list most possible list of password and
trying them.
6. Problems with current technique
• It takes days to recover password
• Resources needed to recover password are
much more
• Computation required are more