Recover lost RAR passwords with Linux

By | January 4, 2009

Ever lost the password to an archive file? You can recover it from the CLI with rarcrack. Just be sure you have the unrar-free and NOT the unrar-nonfree package installed. It tries a bruteforce method on the archive file and also works with other archive filetypes:

INFO: detected file type: rar
INFO: cracking test_archive.rar, status file: test_archive.rar.xml
INFO: Resuming cracking from password: ‘1’

Probing: ‘9Ca’ [305 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘9Pf’ [270 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘a3E’ [297 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘afS’ [252 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘auG’ [306 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘aI4’ [276 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘aT5’ [227 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘b7x’ [298 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘bjF’ [250 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘buO’ [230 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘bIb’ [276 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘bX5’ [308 pwds/sec]
Probing: ‘cbg’ [293 pwds/sec]

One thought on “Recover lost RAR passwords with Linux

  1. Alexi Funky

    Didn’t work for me, it didn’t stop bruteforcing if correct pass found… It erases the tag in the xml file instead…

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