It is inevitable that you will come in contact with a 7-Zip archive that you need to crack, whether that’s during your career as a penetration tester, or while playing around in Capture The Flag events. This video shows you how we can extract the password hash of an encrypted 7-Zip archive, and then crack that hash using Hashcat.

Disclaimer: This content is intended to be consumed by cyber security professionals, ethical hackers, and penetration testers. Any attacks performed in this video should only be performed in environments that you control or have explicit permission to perform them on.

0:00 – Introduction
2:15 – Using 7z2john to Extract Hash
3:40 – Using Hashcat to Crack Password
6:15 – Extracting Contents of 7z File

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