Beginners Guide for John the Ripper (Part 2)

We learned most of the basic information on John the Ripper in our Previous Article which can be found here. In this article we will use John the Ripper to crack the password hashes of some of the file formats like zip, rar, pdf and much more.

To crack theses password hashes, we are going to use some of the inbuilt and some other utilities which extract the password hash form the locked file. There are some utilities that come inbuilt with john which can be found using the following command.

locate *2john

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