Crack 7z Password

Last modified: 2024-12-18

If a 7z file is protected with password, we can crack the password.

Crack

First we need to convert the .7z file to hash.

7z2john example.7z > hash.txt
# or
/usr/share/john/7z2john.pl example.7z > hash.txt

If we got the error “Can't locate Compress/Raw/Lzma.pm in @INC...”, we need to install libcompress-raw-lzma-perl package so try:

sudo apt install libcompress-raw-lzma-perl

Now we can crack the hash with one of the commands below:

john --wordlist=wordlist.txt hash.txt
# or
hashcat -m 11600 hash.txt wordlist.txt