Cracking zip password can be made easy with cracker-ng
Installation
Installation is simple, assuming you use Debian, Ubuntu or any other similar operating system :
$ git clone https://github.com/BoboTiG/cracker-ng.git $ cd cracker-ng # For testers and contributors, always work with on the devel branch: $ git checkout devel $ make
Cracking
Cracking is relatively simple, assuming you have downloaded the awesome Crackstation’s wordlist dictionary.
$ zipcracker-ng -f targetfile.zip -w crackstation-human-only.txt
Additionally zipcracker-ng can also be used with other brute-forcing cracking tool such as john and
$ john --incremental --stdout | zipcracker-ng -f FILE - $ crunch 1 8 -f charset.lst lalpha | zipcracker-ng -f FILE -
