Howto Crack Rar, 7z, and zip files in Linux
Posted by Admin on April 24th, 2008
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Warning: Please don’t use this program for any illegal things!
Preparing your system
First you need to install the following package
#apt-get install libxml2-dev build-essential
Now you need to download the latest version of rarcrack from here
#wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rarcrack/rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2
Now you have rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 file and you need to extract this file
#tar -xjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2
#cd rarcrack-0.2
#make
You must be root to run the following command
#make install
Using Rarcrack
rarcrack your_encrypted_archive.ext [--threads thread_num] [--type rar|zip|7z]
Example
rarcrack something.rar
After the cracking started RarCrack will print the current status of cracking and save it’s to a status file. If you want more specific password character set, you need to run RarCrack to create the XML status file (3 sec).
August 12th, 2008 at 1:27 am
how if the file is a exe that was a rar ? exe with password.
please help
September 27th, 2008 at 3:47 am
I tested rarcrack but failed.
A file (a.txt) was crypted by WinRAR 3.5 with password ‘aa’. The encrypted file is a.rar.
./rarcrack a.rar
RarCrack! 0.2 by David Zoltan Kedves (kedazo@gmail.com)
INFO: detected file type: rar
INFO: cracking a.rar, status file: a.rar.xml
Probing: ‘p8′ [539 pwds/sec]
it didn’t found ‘aa’.
George