Cracking Protected Files

Ryan

Ryan
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