Brutus restore file
File type: Various data file
A .bru file is a restore file used by Brutus, a password-cracking utility for Microsoft Windows.
It stores a saved Brutus session so that a previous password attack can be resumed.
Found 2 different file type records with the same bru filename suffix.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 4, 2026
The .bru file extension identifies a Brutus restore file. Brutus uses these files to save the state of a password-cracking session, allowing the program to continue an interrupted or paused attack later.
The file is part of Brutus's session management rather than a general-purpose document format. It is intended to be read by Brutus on Microsoft Windows and is not normally useful outside that program.
Open the .bru file in Brutus on Microsoft Windows. Use Brutus's restore or load-session function to resume the saved password-cracking session.
Renaming the file or opening it in a text editor will not restore the session.
A Brutus restore file cannot normally be converted to another format because it contains program-specific session data rather than document content.
To use the saved session, load the original .bru file in Brutus. If Brutus is unavailable, the saved session cannot generally be resumed elsewhere.
File type category:
Bitmap image file
Date updated: September 16, 2019
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The bru file extension is related to the DEGAS Elite, a bitmap image editing tool, developed by Tom Hudson for ATARI ST (Sixteen/Thirty-two) a successor of 8-bit Atari computers.
The bru file stores some kind of brush data from DEGAS Elite software.
Use RECOIL to view content of *.bru files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
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