Hashcat

About

Hashcat is a popular password cracking tool. It's known for its advanced features, optimizations, and support for a wide range of hashing algorithms.

Examples of Usage

Hash Examples

Hashcat has a ton of different hash-cracking modes, so we could see all list here: [LINK]

Hash-Identifying

hashcat --identify --user proofofsus.file

Password Mutations

Password Mutations is technique, when you change some default passwords, or find out some personal information about target, and want to use it for password. But regularly even if person have dog named: Richard, password wouldn't be just richard, it would be r1ch@rd15 as example. That's what the point of Password Mutation, change password to look for it's variations, or mutations.

Hachcat Rules

Function
Description

:

Do nothing

l

lowercase all letters

u

uppercase all letters

c

capitalize first letter and lowercase others

sXY

Replace all instances of X with Y

$!

Add exclamation character at the end

hashcat --force password.list -r mutation.rule --stdout | sort -u > mutated.list

Also you could use CeWL for making custom wordlists from someone's website.

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