05-04-2017, 05:32 AM
I have a rar archive originating from the russian internet that is relevant to a carpentry project of mine, and hashcat seems to be my only hope of busting it open and I'm not terribly knowlegable about the details of how encryption and encoding work.
Right now I have the file in The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) with john ready to go but I have two questions to formulate a battle plan:
1) Is there a way to tell what version of rar an archive is?
2) Is it possible to solve the hash using hashcat's hex option and then translate what hashcat spits out into different encodings to try as passwords?
Sorry for the blunt intro, and appreciate any help I can get learning how to open this thing, I have a feeling it's going to be an adventure.
Right now I have the file in The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) with john ready to go but I have two questions to formulate a battle plan:
1) Is there a way to tell what version of rar an archive is?
2) Is it possible to solve the hash using hashcat's hex option and then translate what hashcat spits out into different encodings to try as passwords?
Sorry for the blunt intro, and appreciate any help I can get learning how to open this thing, I have a feeling it's going to be an adventure.