Posted in

Azure GPU Instances in duty of recover RAR passwords

Using Azure GPU instances to recover/crack RAR passwords, 3 steps:
  1. Deploy this Standard Azure Gaming Instance with Nvidia Tesla GPU: https://github.com/MariuszFerdyn/azure-gaming
  2. Download cRARk55 http://www.crark.net. There is only one file encrypted so you can extract rest.
  3. Rename any def to password.def and configure tool – usually just line 56 [$a $A $1 $!] *
  4. Execute cRARk.exe newbase.rar and wait for results.
cRARk.exe rar.rar cRARk 5.5b (OpenCL enabled) Freeware Copyright 1995-2001, 2006-20 by P. Semjanov, http://www.crark.net (c) Password Definition Language & PDL engine v. 4.0 by P. Semjanov 1999-2019 Testing archive rar.rar: version 5.0 Testing newbasefx-server.gitignore OpenCL device #0 Tesla M60 found, 1177 MHz, 2048 SP cores, GPU rate = 11.26 Trying to compile FAST NVIDIA OpenCL kernel. Please wait… Successfully. Running self-test… Successfully Choosing best crypto functions………. Chosen: AVX2, AVX, AVX2 (-f479), AES-NI Clock cycles per password expected = 8458338 (SIMD)/31320216 (x64) (*), theoretical = 40235893 SHA-256 clock cycles per byte expected = 2.1 (SIMD)/7.5 (x64) (*), theoretical = 9.6 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz found, CPU rate = 4.76 (*) (*) May be inaccurate if Turbo Boost is on Processing line 59 of password definition file… Expected passwords to test (approx.) = 7417954634 Testing 1-character passwords … Passwords tested = 94 (time = 00.32, rate = 292 p/s) Testing 2-character passwords … Testing * on device #0, Block size is: 512 x 256 (-m512), step = 1/2 (-d2) Passwords tested = 8930 (time = 01.51, rate = 5898 p/s) Testing 3-character passwords … Testing * on device #0, Block size is: 512 x 256 (-m512), step = 1/2 (-d2) Passwords tested = 839514 (time = 51.79, rate = 16209 p/s) Testing 4-character passwords …
Be aware that it is almost impossible to crack more than 8 characters password.  

Microsoft Certified Trainer, Office 365, AWS, Azure and Cloud Expert-Architect. In the IT world for over than 20 years.

Apart from the main area of Microsoft Azure expert in the field of infrastructure servers Windows Server 2003-2019, Microsoft Active Directory, Hyper-V Private Cloud, IIS, System Center, SQL.

Private Cloud, System Center, Hyper-V, Open Stack Expert and all Microsoft products Expert. Linux Server administrator.

My Azure community projects:

https://mazeball.azurewebsites.net/
https://github.com/MariuszFerdyn?tab=repositories

More