John The Ripper Cracking ZIP and RAR Protected Files

 

Today we will focus on cracking passwords for ZIP and RAR archive files. This tool is very useful when you have an important protected ZIP and RAR file but you forgot the password and don't know how to open the file. Here is the solution ... John the Ripper !!!

John the Ripper is an Open Source password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems.

What you need is just download John the Ripper here and follow step below. This tutorial implemented in Windows 10.

1. Download and extract John the Ripper tools

2. For tutorial purpose, I have created winrar file "flag.rar" and protected with password "123"

3. Open your command prompt cmd by press button window + R and type cmd then enter

4. Go to folder 

          E:\shared\installer\hack\john-1.9.0-jumbo-1-win64\run> 

5. Type command 

         E:\shared\installer\hack\john-1.9.0-jumbo-1-win64\run>rar2john.exe test/flag.rar > test/flag.hash

this will create hash file with name "flag.hash" in folder E:\shared\installer\hack\john-1.9.0-jumbo-1-win64\run\test\flag.hash

6. Type command

         E:\john-1.9.0-jumbo-1-win64\run>john test/flag.hash

     wait until finish the process and John the Ripper will show you the password .

That's it ... very simple. John the Ripper is very useful tools for cracking password.

Thank you