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- Change the folder name of the file you have downloaded to something else so that it’ll be easy for you to remember, lets’ say ‘John.’ Place the newly created folder in Desktop so that it’ll be easily accessible while browsing.
- Open the ‘John’ folder and go to the folder named “Run.”
- You will need to create a new folder inside the ‘Run’ folder, call it “Crack” like in the snapshot below.
- Now, copy the ZIP file whose password you are in need to crack into the “Crack” folder.
- Click on “Windows Icon” then open Command prompt, run it as administrator. You can also run a command prompt from the ‘Run’ application in Windows.
- On the command interface, hit the command, ‘cd/Desktop/john/run.’ Basically, with this Command, we are calling windows to navigate through the “Run” folder.
- Now, we are interested in creating a Hash value of the passwords to crack the ZIP files password. Hash, when matched with the real password, will generate an actual password on the command interface. To create hashes, type in the command “Zip2john.exe/crack/ZipFileName.zip>crack/keys.txt.” Enter to execute. Password hashes are saved in the keys.txt file.
- Finally, we are all set to crack the Zip file password using hashes with a single command line.
- Fire the command “john –format=zip crack/keys.txt” and Enter. The whole process is a brute force attack. If you are lucky enough, it will take some minutes to crack the password else. You need to wait hours if the password is lengthy. You can see the cracked password on the snapshot below, and it says, “ABC123.”
This may help,
Jimmy
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