How To Recover Your Zip Password Using Kali Linux

Hello everyone, In this blog, I am going to show you how you can recover your zip password by using Kali Linux.

STEP 1: Open the terminal and install fcrackzip tool, for that type the command apt install fcrackzip    

STEP 2: Now, copy the zip file which you want to recover your password and paste it to the Desktop.

STEP 3: Now open the terminal in Desktop and type the command fcrackzip -b -c a1 -v -u fileName.zip and hit enter.

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 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 calculcate 1/m of the password

-b for brute-force

-c for characterset-specification:: 

              Select the characters to use in brute-force cracking. Must be one of

                        a  -- include all lowercase characters [a-z]

                        A -- include all uppercase characters [A-Z]

                        1 -- include the digits [0-9]

                        ! -- include [!:$%&/()=?{[]}+*~#]

                        : -- the following characters up to the end of the specification string are included in the character set.

-- In my case, I used a1 to recover my password.

-v to view the process.

and -u for hiding unnecessary processes.

Now when you hit enter the password recovery process will start.

it will take a few minutes to recover your password as per your password length.

USE: man fcrackzip for more options.