Have you ever forgotten the password to a ZIP file you created months ago? Was it a backup of important documents, or a project archive you locked for safekeeping? Or are you an investigator who may need to analyze archived evidence files? Opening locked archives can be frustrating but thankfully, there are legitimate, ethical ways to recover them.
In this post, we’ll look at how ZIP password recovery works, why it’s possible, and the tools professionals use when they’ve lost access to their own data.
⚠⚠⚠ You should bear in mind that using this knowledge to crack or perform piracy is illegitimate, and you may be held responsible.
👉 Remember: intent is what separates cybersecurity from cybercrime.
TUTORIAL(Using ZipCracker v1.0.0)
1. Click on the link below to download File Cracker.
2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file.
3. Open the folder and launch appZipCracker.exe if you are on Windows or appZipCracker is you are on Linux.
4. From the UI, select the locked ZIP file by clicking on the browse button.
5. Enter character set (The characters that may be present in the lost password)
For example, the password we are trying to crack is "here", I will use a character set that contains the characters above, such as eghtr, hywer, gierhv .
This character set is closer to universal character set for cracking:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789@#$%^&~!*()-_=+[]{}\|;:'",./?<>👉Note: The more the character set, the more longer it will take. The above character set will take a maximum of 5 hours to break the password
6. Paste your authentication token and click on verify for ZipCracker. You can generate Auth token on this page within seconds if you don't have it
7. Start the tool and be patient while it cracks the password.
Make sure to not turn off the computer or close the app, just be patient. It is working in background until password is cracked.
Make sure to not turn off the computer or close the app, just be patient. It is working in background until password is cracked.
If you are patient enough for the process to finish, your password would be cracked and shown at the bottom similar to the screenshot above.
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