Investigating a Password-Protected Zip Archive - Exploring Brute-forcing Tools & 7-Zip

Password-protected zip files are a common way of protecting the content they contain. It's common for me to discover these archives through open-directories, but not be privy to the password to extract their contents. In this video, we'll explore a few techniques for recovering the password for a protected archive. First, we'll use 7-zip to explore the structure of the archive and identify any files that are NOT encrypted. Next, we'll use zipdump from Didier Stevens to try brute-forcing the …

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