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Is there any other way to access my zip file without the original password? What can I do to recover my zip file?
Is there any other way to access my zip file without the original password? What can I do to recover my zip file?
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Answered on Dec 16, 2021
One method that can be used for the Zip File Password Crack is using the fcrackzip CLI tool. It's in most Linux distro repos such as Ubuntu & Fedora/CentOS. Using it is pretty straightforward:
$ fcrackzip -b -c a1:$% -l 1-6 -u myencrypted.zip
Options
-b - brute force
-c a1:$% - specifies the character sets to use
-l 1-6 - specifies the length of passwords to try
-u - unzip to weed out wrong passwords
Usage
$ fcrackzip --help
fcrackzip version 1.0, a fast/free zip password cracker
written by Marc Lehmann You can find more info on
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/
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 charset
[-h|--help] show this message
[--version] show the version of this program
[-V|--validate] sanity-check the algortihm
[-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 calculcate 1/m of the password
file... the zipfiles to crack
methods compiled in (* = default):
0: cpmask
1: zip1
*2: zip2, USE_MULT_TAB
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