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abrute - Multi-threaded AES Brute Force File Decryption

Also supports encrypted ZIP files!

Rather straight forward. It works but has much more improvements yet to come. This will use your CPU to the best of its ability so you may want to use this on a secondary system.

Installation

abrute needs the nightly build of Rust for the TryFrom trait.

To use the install script you need to have the following commands available on your system curl wget unzip sudo cc and possibly other build essentials for C.

For Ubuntu and Docker images of Ubuntu you can install these prerequisites with:

bash apt-get update && apt-get install curl wget unzip sudo build-essential

NOTE: if you are not root you may need to precede apt-get with sudo

The install.sh script will check for Rust and aescrypt and proceed to install them if they are missing (it will ask you if you want to install Rust).

First download the installation script locally.

bash curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielpclark/abrute/master/install.sh > install.sh

Then verify that the contents of the installation script is safe to use (a no brainer). Then run

bash bash install.sh

This install script will use sudo to copy the binary directly to /usr/bin and make the command abrute available to you everywhere.

Manual Installation

First you need to have aescrypt installed.

bash wget https://www.aescrypt.com/download/v3/linux/aescrypt-3.13.tgz tar -xzf aescrypt-3.13.tgz cd aescrypt-3.13/src make && sudo make install cd ../.. && rm -rf aescrypt-3.13

Next you need to have Rust installed.

bash curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- --channel=nightly

Then you can get and compile abrute.

bash git clone https://github.com/danielpclark/abrute.git cd abrute cargo +nightly build --release sudo cp target/release/abrute /usr/bin/

Usage

``` USAGE: abrute [OPTIONS] --

Single digit or a range 4:6 for password length. Characters to use in password attempt. Don't use quotes unless they may be in the password. Backslash may escape characters such as space. -a, --adjacent Set a limit for allowed adjacent characters. Zero will not allow any characters of the same kind to neighbor in the attempts. -s, --start Starting character sequence to begin with. -z, --zip Use unzip decryption instead of aescrypt. -c, --chunk Workload chunk size per core before status update. Defaults to 32. --cluster Takes an offset and cluster size such as 1:4 for the first system in a cluster of 4. Helps different systems split the workload without trying the same passwords. Target file to decrypt. The target must be preceeded by a double dash: -- target.aes -h, --help Prints help information. -v, --version Prints version information. ```

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.