04-15-2018, 12:39 AM
Hey guys, this is my first post on this forum. I've been reading up on how to use hashcat but I need some guidance, so I wanted to ask a couple of questions here relating 7zip files.
Recently I locked a 7zip file with bunch of pictures and videos, and sadly for the life of me I cannot remember the password. I tried using the tool from this thread: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-4328.html ,but the issue I have is that the zip file 1.4gb and it exceeds the memory limit, so I can't retrieve the hash in order to use HashCat as described in the GitHub article.
The good thing is that I know that the password length is between 5 and 12 symbols and I do not have any spaces in it. I have used letters and numbers or possibly some special characters like a "$" or "!". Since I have a Nvidia 1080 I think brute-force would be able to do within reasonable time, when I narrow down the password length. There are definetly no Cyrillic or weird symbols so that can be excluded too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Recently I locked a 7zip file with bunch of pictures and videos, and sadly for the life of me I cannot remember the password. I tried using the tool from this thread: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-4328.html ,but the issue I have is that the zip file 1.4gb and it exceeds the memory limit, so I can't retrieve the hash in order to use HashCat as described in the GitHub article.
The good thing is that I know that the password length is between 5 and 12 symbols and I do not have any spaces in it. I have used letters and numbers or possibly some special characters like a "$" or "!". Since I have a Nvidia 1080 I think brute-force would be able to do within reasonable time, when I narrow down the password length. There are definetly no Cyrillic or weird symbols so that can be excluded too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!