Archive extraction program with password list option

bluetechnology · 08-17-2015, 06:46 PM

I am looking for a archive extraction program that has a password list option to where it will go through the list until it finds correct password. This is only for rars from sources that use the same password. Peazip has something similar but does not work properly with giving me errors when extracting multiple selected rars. There are programs like this for windows such as UnRarIt, ExtractNow. These types of programs are very useful when accumulating archives and running through a list of gathered passwords to make entering 1 password at a time more quicker by running through them all. If there is not program as such is there a workaround for this type of function? About the windows programs I tried running them in wine which ran but did not work.

TobiSGD · 08-18-2015, 12:05 PM

The unrar program has the -p switch, which allows you to specify a password, so writing a script for something like that should be trivial.

bluetechnology · 08-20-2015, 11:28 AM

Is that only specifying 1 password? I am looking for a way to use a list of passwords. Currently my list is 86 passwords.

TobiSGD · 08-20-2015, 03:14 PM

If you have your password list in a text file you can use a simple script to test one password after the other, a very simple example:

Code:

$PASSWORDS=/path/to/file/with/passwords
for file in *.rar
do
  while read passw
  do
    unrar -p $passw $file
  done < $PASSWORDS
done

Keep in mind that this is just an example to demonstrate how to do something like that, it certainly is in need of refinement.

John VV · 08-20-2015, 03:18 PM

or use "john the ripper"

TobiSGD · 08-21-2015, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

or use "john the ripper"

John the Ripper is fine if you want to find an unknown password. In this case there is a list of known passwords, but no unknown passwords.

bluetechnology · 08-22-2015, 08:33 PM

Does john the ripper extract successfully matched password/rar say if I point it "jonny" to a folder will it find all rars that have passwords and run through a selected password list and automatically extract them?

TobiSGD · 08-23-2015, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluetechnology

Does john the ripper extract successfully matched password/rar say if I point it "jonny" to a folder will it find all rars that have passwords and run through a selected password list and automatically extract them?

No, I am not even sure that John the Ripper can crack RAR passwords at all with its inbuilt mechanisms.

unSpawn · 08-23-2015, 05:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluetechnology

These types of programs are very useful when accumulating archives and not knowing what pass goes to what rar.

Sure but somehow "I have %{something} I do not know how to access, please help me gain access anyway" doesn't sound like a SFLQ question to me?..

bluetechnology · 08-23-2015, 02:43 PM

I am not sure what you are saying with {something} and SFLQ. Can you elaborate what you are describing? I have the password for each rar I get most of the time. But instead of going through 80+ passwords for each archive it would be quicker to have a program to run through the list and do it that way.

Tinkster · 08-26-2015, 04:36 PM

And a belated close; this sounds suspiciously like not so legal use.