RARk code to create their own password recovery tools. Prices start at $4. Professional version, which supports up to 8 CPUs and 8 GPUs. If you need to crack a hard password using brute- force, which is really your only option when it comes to RAR files, then this program is your best shot. Atomic RAR Password Recovery. The free trial will allow you to recover passwords up to 3 characters in length.
If you have a longer password and the program is able to determine the entire password, you will see the 1st three characters followed by asterisks (*). In this case, you can buy the program for $3. If it never shows the asterisks, that means it can’t figure out the password and you don’t have to buy it! Nice. If the RAR file is a version 2 RAR archive, you have a much better chance at cracking the encryption. If it’s a version 3 RAR file, you won’t be as lucky, especially if the password is complex. RAR Password Cracker.
This is another program that uses both the brute force attack method and the dictionary attack. It’s shareware also, so the free trial has some limitations. What I like about RAR Password Cracker is that they have a couple of licensing options. If you’re only going to need this program once to crack a RAR password, which is probably the case for most people, then you can just buy a low- cost time- limited fully functional license for $7. The normal program costs $3. The program works with RAR version 2.
As with the program mentioned above, you can pause the program at any time and restart it later and it will continue the attack from the same state, which is great in case the program crashes after running for 1. Elcomsoft Advanced Archive Password Recovery. Another good software for cracking into archive files like RAR and ZIP files is Advanced Archive Password Recovery, however, it’s pricey ($4. Standard, $9. 9 for Pro) and still probably won’t be able to crack a RAR archive that uses AES encryption with a strong password. This program is better if you know anything at all about the password like the length, whether special characters are used, the first or last letter, etc.
You can plug those specifications into the program and greatly increase the speed of the attack. The program is better at cracking Winzip archives since those have weaker encryption. What’s cool about this program is that it can crack some passwords in less than an hour if the version of Win. Zip is below 8. 0 by taking advantage of an exploit. The program also supports archive files over 4. GB in size and includes the ability to pause and resume attacks.
If nothing else above works, then you can consider this program. Unfortunately, those were all the semi- good RAR password crackers I could really find. Only one is free and it requires knowledge of the command line.
Overall, you have a fairly low chance of actually being able to crack a RAR password, so bear that in mind.