Zip file password cracking with John the Ripper

john the ripper is a password cracking tool and you can also use it to crack passwords on zip files so let's take a look here you can see i tried to unzip a backup.zip file but it requires a password we're going to use zip to john on the backup.zip file and put the hashes in a file called hashes we can check that file with cat and see that the contents are in there as they should be next we'll use john again with the rocky text file against the hashes here we can check to see the hashes and looks like we have one the password that we're going to be looking at is right here we'll try the password we got by unzipping the file it prompts for the password i pasted the password in it and let's see we end up getting two files we have the index.php we can check that file and even grab it for additional passwords

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Published: Tue May 31 2022