Cracking Protected Files

Cracking Protected Files

Find the password protected file, in our case for this example it's a winzip password protected file.

Extract the crackable information using john the ripper tools.

I used a Kali linux VM to crack the password protected file.

[1.] zip2john flag.txt.zip > hash

[2.] cat hash

hash output

[3.] apt install seclists

[4.] john --wordlist='2020-200_most_used_passwords.txt' hash

result

iloveyou (flag.txt.zip/flag.txt)

iloveyou is the password to the zip file.

[5.] unzip flag.txt.zip

[6.] cat flag.txt