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dCTF 2021 - Strong Password | Cracking

Strong Password

Zip file with a password. I wonder what the password could be?

Downloadable zip file

Solution

Given a zip file, I need to find the password to it.

On my Linux machine, I ran the following command to obtain the hash of the zip file.

Then, I deleted the front and end non-hash text and selected just the $zip2$ hash to crack using Hashcat.

Please note the hash is too long so I just used “…” to represent the content between the front and end signature.

\\Linux
$zip2john strong_password.zip > hash.txt
$cat hash.txt

$zip2$.......$zip2$

After that, I used hashcat’s mode 13600 to crack this particular zip hash after providing rockyou.txt as the wordlist.

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After putting the password as Bo38AkRcE600X8DbK3600, I was able to get the flag.

Flag: dctf{r0cKyoU_f0r_tHe_w1n}