How to Crack a Password Protected Microsoft Office Document

How to use #Hashcat and John the Ripper to crack a password protected Microsoft #Office document, which also includes password protected One Notes.
For simplicity you can use Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org/
Or install Hashcat into any Linux distribution.

Instructions:
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mag...
$ python office2john.py document.docx | tee  officehash.txt
Check hash mode: https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=...
Usually 9400, 9500 or 9600 (depending on the version of Office)
$ hashcat -m 9600 -a 0 --username officehash.txt rockyou.txt

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