Using any tools you find helpful, within Kali or elsewhere, disclose the content of the given ZIP archive without having the password readily available. The solution must contain pictures of your work...

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Using any tools you find helpful, within Kali or elsewhere, disclose the content of the given ZIP archive without having the password readily available. The solution must contain pictures of your work with appropriate annotation (at least one with each tool used) with the content of the zip file and a short summary how you solved the challenge.


All documentation must be provided in the Hacking Journal (found in student resources section) and uploaded to this assignment for grading. The methods are your technical approach and process for solving the challenge.
Use at least three methods with three different tools.
You are the professional here. You have been 'hired' to investigate and break this file as necessary. Document what you do and what you find accordingly.










This is the full assignment, but I just need help with a third password cracking tool. I have used fcrackzip and John the Ripper. Please help me.

Answered Same DayMay 10, 2021

Answer To: Using any tools you find helpful, within Kali or elsewhere, disclose the content of the given ZIP...

Prince answered on May 10 2021
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John the Ripper
John the ripper is password cracking utility that was initially developed for Unix
based Operating Systems but is now available on various platforms.
Using one of the utilities “zip2john” we extract a hash file from the given zip which can be used to retrieve the password from the given .zip file.
Using John the ripper in kali Linux and the ‘rockyou.txt’ dictionary(collections of common passwords) which is present in default installations of the said operating system we can perform the password retrieval as:
Here we can see the highlighted text “close” which is the password for the file.
Hashcat
Hashcat is a GPU...
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