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Hi everybody. So I have a RAR archive that I need to get the password to. I would be able to do this but this RAR archive is unlike anything I have previously seen. When you open the password protected archive, you can view the files just like normal. You are only prompted with a password upon extracting the files. I have tried multiple cracking programs. Hashcat, John the Ripper, and cRARk. When I use rar2john, a program supplied with John the Ripper to hash the given archive, it generates a very strange looking hash; one that doesn't work with either hashcat or John. cRARk immediately attempts to crack the first file in the archive. Any idea what to do next? Thanks!
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RAR cracking without header encryption is not yet supported
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07-26-2016, 06:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-26-2016, 06:26 AM by NikosD.)
There is a free tool supporting all types of RAR cracking (with or without header encryption) called
cRARk and it's heavily optimized for all CPU architectures, like AVX2, AVX, XOP, AES-NI for Intel Haswell and AMD Bulldozer processors.
It supports only 1 thread for CPU (no multicore) and only one GPU or CPU (not at the same time)
Also, no pause/resume.
Latest v5.1 supports x64 and CUDA
http://www.crark.net/download/crark51.rar for Nvidia cards and x64 and OpenCL
http://www.crark.net/download/crark51-ocl.rar for AMD
For Intel GPUs you have to download previous 5.0c version
http://www.crark.net/download/crark50-ocl.rar which works on Win 10 x64 latest driver.
Some benchmarks on
RAR3 without header encryption:
Radeon 5750 ~2500 pass/s
Intel HD4600@1.5GHz ~760 pass/s
Core i7-4790 (AVX2) ~700 pass/s (Single thread)
Nvidia GT610 ~700 pass/s
Core i5-2400 (AVX) ~300 pass/s (Single thread)
Core 2 Duo@2.86GHz (SSE2) ~200 pass/s (Single thread)
