There are situations when a password is set for a zip or rar archive. And I would very much like to get data from it. The situation is almost hopeless, but it's worth a try. There are some methods and programs that will help you retrieve data from the archive. Hacking a zip or rar archive containing a password is possible thanks to brute-forcing passwords, the so-called "bruteforward".
Necessary
Personal computer, Advanced Archive Password Recovery program
Instructions
Step 1
If you suddenly find a utility on the Internet that works on some other basis, then with a probability of 99% it will turn out to be a fake or a virus. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that you can open corrupted archives without brute-forcing, but only if these archives were created by old archivers. The opportunity to find such archives is close to zero.
Step 2
Still, it remains to try to crack the archive using brute force. With the alphabetical method, brute-force passwords (for example, aabc, aabd, aabe, etc.).
Step 3
In this case, all valid passwords are searched. It is also worth noting that the whole process depends on the selected password range. In general, we can say that it is practically impossible to crack an eight-digit password using this method. And it can take a very long time. Only a super powerful computer can do it.
Step 4
You can use the Advanced Archive Password Recovery program. In principle, its main task is to crack archives. First of all, download the program from the Internet. It is distributed almost free of charge. However, there are some problems that are present in such programs for cracking archives. The user could set the characters in the password. The computer has 161 standard characters. This means that the program will have to sort out approximately 17.416.274.304.961 passwords. According to the developers of this program, 15 million combinations are sorted out per second. Even at this speed, it will take about 10 days to sort out.
Step 5
To crack the password on the archive, run the program. Next, select the archive you need, and open it through the program. To do this, click on the "Open" tab. Choose the type of attack. You can use the standard search, that is, specify all possible combinations. Or you can use brute force on the Mask. It is useful when the user knows some part of the password. Then click on the "Start" tab. At the end of the search, the program will display the result.
