Saturday, 2 April 2011

Cracking Password-Protected ZIP Files

This tutorial for Ubuntu or Backtrack users to crack password-protected zip files with wordlists. 

1. Install FCrackZIP packages.
   -  apt-get install fcrackzip
2. Crack it with Dictionary or Brute Force Attack.
   - Brute Force Attack.

  •      fcrackzip -v zipfiles.
   - Dictionary Attack.
  •      fcrackzip -v -D -p /pentest/passwords/wordlists/wordlists zipfiles.
      *** Wordlist is the file that contain a lists of words (one word per line)
      *** My wordlist is /pentest/passwords/wordlists/wordlists
3. That's you crack the file.

2 comments:

  1. It is rather recommended to use sudo

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  2. tut is on backtrack where there is no admin privilage prob :P

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