Recover password of password protected zip file

01 Jun, 2022
In this article, we will get to know about how to get the password of a zip file. I’m using Linux I went with a quick search and came across fcrackzip. This is a free program that allows for both dictionary and brute force cracking of zip file passwords. It is not difficult to use and offers a wide range of options. Let’s make a zip file then we will copy-paste it into Linux after that we will try to break this password by fcrackzip. I created a zip file. This zip file’s password is 12345678. 
Creating password protected secret.zip
In Terminal type fcrackzip –help this command will open help options for fcrackzip  
USAGE: fcrackzip
          [-b|--brute-force]            use brute force algorithm
          [-D|--dictionary]             use a dictionary
          [-B|--benchmark]              execute a small benchmark
          [-c|--charset characterset]   use characters from charse
          [-h|--help]                   show this message
          [--version]                   show the version of this program
          [-V|--validate]               sanity-check the algorithm
          [-v|--verbose]                be more verbose
          [-p|--init-password string]   use string as initial password/file
          [-l|--length min-max]         check password with length min to max
          [-u|--use-unzip]              use unzip to weed out wrong passwords
          [-m|--method num]             use method number "num" (see below
          [-2|--modulo r/m]             only calculate 1/m of the password
          file...                    the zipfiles to crack
There are 2 methods to get the password of the zip file  
1. Brute force attack: If you wanted to use a brute force attack from 4-8 characters on “secret.zip” you would use the following command: 
$fcrackzip -v -m -l 4-8 -u secret.zip
To break the command down: 
v is for verbose and gives you better output
m specifies the mode to use, in this case, zip6
l specifies the minimum password length to maximum password length
u tells the program to test the password with unzip before declaring it correct
2. Dictionary-based Attack: Using a dictionary-based attack is as easy as brute force attack
Syntax:
$ fcrackzip -v -D -u -p /usr/share/dict/words secret.zip
Here: /usr/share/dict/words is the wordlists and secret.zip is the zipped file that is encrypted.
Example:
fcrackzip -v -D -u -p /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt 16162020_backup.zip
Here the only difference is the -D to specify a dictionary-based attack and -p which is used to specify the password file. This file should contain one word per line and on Linux systems, there’s a nice dictionary included in /usr/share/dict/words or you can use any other password dictionaries. 
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