Hashcat

hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 300 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.

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Utilisation

First, it is necessary to define the type of hash to find.

→ Hash Analyzer - TunnelsUP

We put the hash in a .txt file (hashes.txt)

We will also need the file rockyou.txt

→ Download Rockyou.txt

Command

1. Help

   hashcat -h

2. Decode hash

   hashcat -m [hash type] -a [attack type] -o cracked.txt hashes.txt rockyou.txt

Example for a md5 hash

1. Command

   hashcat -m 0 -a 0 -o cracked.txt hashes.txt rockyou.txt

2. Display results

   → cracked.txt

   or

   hashcat --show -m 0 hashes.txt rockyou.txt