The objective of this investigation was to identify, analyze, and decrypt the protected file Password Cracking.zip . Using standard forensic tools, the password was successfully recovered through a dictionary attack, allowing for the extraction and verification of the internal contents. 1. Evidence Identification Password Cracking.zip
Integrity check (MD5/SHA-1) performed on extracted files to ensure no corruption occurred during recovery. 4. Conclusion
A Dictionary Attack was prioritized using common wordlists (e.g., rockyou.txt ), followed by a Brute-Force Attack for complex patterns. 3. Analysis & Results
List of files found inside (e.g., confidential_data.txt , image.jpg ).
Utilized zip2john to extract the password hash from the metadata of the ZIP file.
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