🔐 Archive Password Recovery

🔑 A Python tool for recovering ZIP, 7z, rar archive passwords using parallel processing

Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Requirements

• zipfile
• argparse
• py7zr
• multiprocessing
• signal

Features

• Include a commonly used password dictionary.
• Parallel processing: Distribute the password recovering process across multiple CPU cores.
• Performance logging to monitor the progress of password recovering.

Installation and Usage

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/DavidHJong/archive_password_recover.git

Navigate to the project directory

cd [Your Downloaded Project Directory]

Install required dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the script with command-line arguments

python archive_password_recover_parallel.py -a <archive> -d <dictionary> -o <output> -p <processes> -m <max-passwords>

Command-line Arguments

• -h, --help: Show help message and exit.
• -a <archive>, --archive <archive>: Path to the archive file (zip, 7z, rar).
• -d <dictionary>, --dictionary <dictionary>: Path to the password dictionary file.
• -o <output>, --output <output>: Path for extracted files.
• -p <processes>, --processes <processes>: Specify the number of parallel processes (default is 8).
• -m <max-passwords>, --max-passwords <max-passwords>: Set the maximum number of passwords to check (default is 1000).

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome. Please create a pull request with your proposed changes.