GauthamSree / Dictionary-Attack

Dictionary Attack Zip Files

Dictionary Attack

Components

• Target Dictionary Creation: TDAT.py

  • This python code is used to create a target dictionary using the personal details of the target person. The code is Modular so that it can also be used as a part of another project as well.

• Crunch Dictionary Creation: crunch

  • A linux command which creates strings from the characters given within the specified range.
  • usage: crunch min_len max_len characters_used > file_name.txt

• Attack Zip File: DictionaryAttack.py

  • This python code is used to attack the encrypted zip file using a user provided dictionary. The dictionary passwords are converted into bytes and then an attack is performed. Zipfile module is used for this purpose
  • usage: python DictionaryAttack.py -l dictionary.txt -f ZIP_FILE_PATH

• Run Script: run_dictionary_attack.sh

  • This combines all the modules like TDAT.py, Crunch and Dictionary attack on one single run script.

Pre-requisite

• Linux Terminal
• Python 3
• Python libraries
  • tqdm
• C++ 11 or above
• Crunch

TO Run

./run_dictionary_attack.sh