CRACK ANY RAR/ZIP FILE PASSWORD WITH JOHN THE RIPPER

 

CRACK ANY RAR/ZIP FILE

Cracking Password Protected ZIP/RAR Files

First, go to the directory of the file.

I will assume that everyone here can do that.

After, use this command :

 zip2john test.zip > output.txt

(If it is a RAR file, replace the zip in the place of rar.)

Replace the "test.zip" with the name of the zip file you are trying to crack and replace the "output.txt" with any name that is a .txt format.

After that command, you will see that it would have maked a text file.

The hashes are stored in that file.

Now you have to crack the password justrub this

 john --format=zip output.txt

Again, replace the "output.txt" to yours. Mine is just an example.

Now, wait, and you can see it is cracked.

Now you got the ZIP password....

Enjoy...

Note:-

This method works good for password contains only numbers.

If you want to crack alphabets also

Put your password wordlist at

 /usr/share/john/password.lst