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.

zip2john flag.txt.zip > hash

cat hash

hash output

apt install seclists

john --wordlist='2020-200_most_used_passwords.txt' hash

result

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

iloveyou is the password to the zip file.

unzip flag.txt.zip

cat flag.txt