How To Crack Password Protected Zip, Rar and Pdf files using ZYDRA Tool

Hey there!!

Installation steps 

As usual updating the system 

$ sudo apt-get update

Make sure python3 is in your system. 

Now clone the git repo as 

git clone https://github.com/hamedA2/Zydra.git

OR

git clone https://github.com/hamedA2/Zydra

Now moving into Zydra's directory 

$ cd Zydra

Now install some python modules before using the script 

$ pip3 install py-term

$ pip3 install rarfile

(if you wanna crack rar file this module is necessary)

$ pip3 install zipfile

(this module is used for zip files)

$ sudo apt install qpdf

(for running script on a pdf file)

$ pip3 install pyfiglet

But install all of these before using the tool

You'll not face any error.

Now let's see to encrypt a zip file

$ zip -e p_protected.zip

nocturnal.txt 

-e (for encryption of files) 

p_protected.zip (new encrypted file name you could give as you wish)

nocturnal.txt (file name you wanna encrypt)

After the command it'll ask for password 

Try with a simple password first for testing the tool.

Move your encrypted file into same folder 

i.e. into Zydra's folder

Working with tool

$ python3 Zydra.py -h

Above step will get commands to run attacks. 

For running brute force attack on a file

$ python3 Zydra.py -f p_protected.zip -b digits,letters -m 1 -x 8

Here -f is your protected file 

-b is your character type which you want to include like letters digits symbols whatever just separate them by comma(,)

-m is for number of minimum characters 

-x is for maximum number of characters

For running a particular password lists 

$ python3 Zydra.py -f p_protected.zip -d dutch_wordlist.txt

Here -d specifies the list you wanna run on a file.

For getting password lists check this project on github 

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passwords

It contains passwords from different sources.

The file is too big to download at once , download it in parts as required.

 NOTE: IT'S JUST FOR INFORMATION PURPOSE. NO EVIL INTENTIONS .

So give it a try 

And if you get stuck somewhere let me know in comments or hit my mailbox.

~Invincianon