How To Crack Any Password Protected RAR File

Like zip files, RAR files can also be password protected. If you have a password protected RAR file in your computer, chances are that you may have forgotten it’s password. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how to extract a password protected RAR file if you don’t have the password with you. Before getting started, let me tell you that this technique is not guaranteed to recover the RAR file password but it’s the best chance you’ve got.

Steps To Crack Password Protected Rar File

1. Download RAR password unlocker tool from this link and install it.
2. Launch the unlocker tool and click open.
3. Find the password protected RAR file from the pop-up dialog and click open again.
4. Under the recovery section, select Dictionary Attack and finally click the start button located at the top.
5. You will be successfully prompted with the password provided the password is an English word in the dictionary.
6. However, if it fails, then select brute force attack under recovery options and then click start again. This time, it may take a lot of time depending on the length and complexity of the password.

Choosing The Right Recovery Option

There are three different recovery options in the Recovery tab in this RAR Password Unlocker Tool.They are as follows:

• Brute-force Attack-This method tries all the possible combinations of characters. As a result, brute force attacks are very slow and require powerful computers to speed up the process. Make sure to try the dictionary attack before going to brute-force.
• Brute-force with Mask Attack-If you know something about the password such as its length, character set, prefix, suffix, etc. then select Brute-force with mask attack under recovery options. Then go to the brute-force tab and provide all information that you know about the password.
• Dictionary Attack-Dictionary attack tries the English words in dictionary as the password.

Other RAR Password Recovery Softwares

• RAR Password Unlocker

This is the best RAR password unlocker tool that I have used and it’s the one that we used in this tutorial. You can download the latest version from their website. The new password unlocker software has very interesting features such as multicore CPU/GPU acceleration, search encrypted files, efficient recovery, and free technical support. Visit password unlocker to learn more about the software.

• Passware Kit Pro

Passware kit is the leading software company that makes password recovery software. Their software has a ton of features and supports a wide variety of password protected files. Passware kit is used by several governmental agencies, police, forensic, etc. They have a software feature that lets you distribute the password extraction process to multiple computers to speed up the password recovery.

• RAR Password Refixer

iSumsoft RAR password refixer is one of their several password recovery software. It has useful features like smart attack, autosave, etc. Unlike Passware Kit, isumsoft makes recovery software tailored for each file format.

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