zipcracker.py

import zipfile
import random
import itertools
import time

"""
Solves a challenge on pentester academy's Labs. Inefficiently writes 
passwords to the screen, only be cause it was used as a debugging method to 
figure out how python3 was jacking up the string encoding. Might clean up
into a usable program someday, so that's why I am saving it here...
"""

secrets_file = '/root/Downloads/secret.zip'
pw_file = 'dict.txt'
new_line = '\n'.encode('utf-8')

# Read zipped file contents
zipped = zipfile.ZipFile(secrets_file, mode="r")
zip_contens = zipped.printdir()
# generate wordlist
print('Generating wordlist... ')
wordlen = 6
chars = "abcde12345"

f = open(pw_file, "wb")
for password in itertools.product(chars, repeat=wordlen):
    f.write(''.join(password).encode('ascii') + '\n'.encode('ascii'))
f.close
time.sleep(2)

cracked = False
with open(pw_file) as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
for password in lines:
    password = password.replace('\n','')
    print("Trying this password - " + password)
    try:
        zipped.extractall(pwd=password.encode('ascii'))
        correct_password = 'Correct password: %s' % password
        cracked = True
        break
    except:
        pass


if cracked:
    print(correct_password)
else:
    print("Password not found")