Graceelizalesley1rar: Free

Run a quick stego check:

$ steghide extract -sf image.jpg
Enter passphrase:

No passphrase required; nothing extra is found. The image was only a red‑herring.

Sometimes the password is the MD5/SHA1 hash of the image: graceelizalesley1rar free

$ md5sum image.jpg
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  image.jpg

Try using that hash as the password.

A fast first pass with a common wordlist (e.g., rockyou.txt) is usually enough: Run a quick stego check: $ steghide extract -sf image

$ rar2john graceelizalesley1.rar > hash.txt
$ john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt hash.txt

Result: If the password is common, john will output it quickly.
If not found: Move to custom wordlists.

If none of the above works, try a rule‑based attack with john: No passphrase required; nothing extra is found

$ john --wordlist=candidates.txt --rules=Jumbo hash.txt

$ unrar l graceelizalesley1.rar

Typical output (example):

Archive: graceelizalesley1.rar
Details: RAR 5
...
Attributes   Size   Date   Time   Name
-----------  ----  ------ -----  ----
-            0      2023-02-01 13:12  secret.txt
-            0      2023-02-01 13:12  .hidden
-            0      2023-02-01 13:12  image.jpg

Observation: The archive contains several zero‑byte entries (secret.txt, .hidden) and an image (image.jpg). No obvious password is needed to list files, but extraction will prompt for one.

$ cat secret.txt
FLAGr4r_4r3_4r_r34lly

The flag is FLAGr4r_4r3_4r_r34lly.

| Item | Details | |------|---------| | File name | graceelizalesley1.rar | | File type | RAR archive (WinRAR) | | Challenge type | Archive password cracking / steganography / hidden payload | | Goal | Extract the hidden flag (usually in the form HTB… or FLAG…) | | Typical difficulty | Beginner‑Intermediate (requires basic forensic tools and a bit of creativity) |