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Zydra is a file password recovery tool and Linux shadow file cracker. It uses the dictionary search or Brute force method for cracking passwords.

Supported Files

• RAR Files
• Legacy ZIP Files
• PDF Files
• Linux Shadow Files (zydra can find all the user’s password in the linux shadow file one after the other)

Prerequisites

To run the app, minimal requirements are:

• Python 3.3 or higher
• debian-based linux distro, preferably Kali linux 2
• qpdf and unrar packages
  Installing these packages on kali is as easy as running the following commands on terminal:
  $ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qpdf unrar
• some python modules in this program need to be installed manually, like: zipfile, rarfile, crypt, pyfiglet, py-term(for term module) and so on. you can use pip3 for install them example:
  $ pip3 install py-term
  notice: rar,zip and pdf files must have an extension, shadow files does not need an extension.

Also Read – Metabigor : Command Line Search Engines Without Any API Key

Features

• Cracking files password using two methods: 1. dictionary method 2. brute force method
• In the brute force method, you can specify the min length and max length of the passwords.
• In the brute force method, you can specify the type of characters that may be used in the password.
• There is a percent progress bar showing how much of the process has been performed.
• Error handling.
• One of the most important features of Zydra is the multiprocessing feature that speeds up the program. For example if you have 8 CPU cores, Zydra will use all of them for processing at the same time.

Installation

Download Zydra by cloning the Git repository: 

$ git clone https://github.com/hamedA2/Zydra.git

Usage

To get a list of all options and learn how to use this app, enter the following command:

$ python3 Zydra.py -h

Examples

• Dictionary search to find the password for a zip file

In this example I use rockyou.txt dictionary

$ python3 Zydra.py –f file.zip –d rockyou.txt

• Brute force search to find the password for the users in the shadow file

Minimum length of password is 4 and maximum length is 4 and we try to find passwords that are composed of numbers and symbols letters.

$ python3 Zydra.py –f shadow –b digits,symbols –m 4 –x 4

Disclaimer

This tool is only for testing and academic purposes Do not use it for illegal purposes!