zipfile

[sagpal]

i am getting error "expected bytes, got str"

here is the python code:
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import zipfile
zFile = zipfile.ZipFile("evil.zip")
passFile = open('dictionary.txt')
for line in passFile.readlines():
    password = line.strip('\n')
    try:
        zFile.extractall(pwd=password)
        print('[+] Password = ' + password + '\n')
        exit(0)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

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[bowlofred]

It looks like the password parameter needs to be bytes rather than a string. Try instead:

        zFile.extractall(pwd=password.encode("utf-8"))

Or... if the password dictionary is already bytes instead of utf-8 characters, open it that way instead of as text.

passFile = open('dictionary.txt', 'rb') # open as bytes
for line in passFile.readlines():
    password = line.rstrip()            # password is bytes
[...]
    print(f"[+] Password = {password}") # don't concat bytes&string, but can convert for printing
[...]

[sagpal]

thank you.