🐈‍⬛Hashcat - cracking hashes

Supported on: Linux, Windows and OSX

Advanced Password Cracking Techniques Using Hashcat

Wordlist attack:

# Single wordlist attack on MD4 (-m 1400)
hashcat.exe -m 1400 C:\hash.txt .\rockyou.txt 

# Combining 2 wordlists (in order)
hashcat.exe -m 1400 C:\hash.txt .\wordlist1.txt .\wordlist2.txt 

# Combining wordlists and adding specific characters to the newly formed words
hashcat.exe -a 1 -m 1000 C:\hash.txt .\wordlist1.txt .\wordlist2.txt -j $- -k $!

Hybrid attack:

# Example: "summer" becomes "summer89" or "summer!#".
hashcat.exe -a 6 C:\hash.txt .\wordlist.txt ?d?d

Toggle case (Rule based attack):

# Toggle Case Attack example using "password"
hashcat.exe -a 0 C:\hash.txt .\wordlist.txt -r .\rules\togglecase.rule

# Possible outputs password
# "password" (all lowercase)
# "PASSWORD" (all uppercase)
# "pASSWORD" (first letter lowercase, rest uppercase)
# "PaSsWoRd" (alternating case)
# "pAsSwOrD" (opposite alternating case)

Associative Attack Patterns:

# Example: "Olympics2020" by appending a significant year to a sports-related word.
hashcat.exe -a 6 C:\hash.txt .\sports.txt ?d?d?d?d

Keyboard Walks and Patterns (interesting method uwu):

# Example: "qwert" might be extended to "qwert123" following a typical keyboard pattern.
hashcat.exe -a 3 C:\hash.txt ?l?l?l?l?l?d?d?d

Prince Attack for Efficient Word Combination:

# Example: "apple" and "123" combined in various ways like "apple123" or "123apple".
hashcat.exe --prince=./wordlist1.txt C:\hash.txt

Custom charset combination:

# Example: "admin" could become "admin2021!" by focusing on letters and digits with common special characters.
hashcat.exe -a 3 C:\hash.txt -1 ?l?d -2 ?u?s ?1?1?2?2

Cracking Linux Hashes (/etc/shadow)

# -m parameter values (500, 3200, 7400, 1800)

 500 | md5crypt $1$, MD5(Unix)                          | Operating-Systems
3200 | bcrypt $2*$, Blowfish(Unix)                      | Operating-Systems
7400 | sha256crypt $5$, SHA256(Unix)                    | Operating-Systems
1800 | sha512crypt $6$, SHA512(Unix)                    | Operating-Systems

Cracking Windows Hashes (NTLM & LM)

# -m parameter values (3000, 1000)

3000 | LM                                               | Operating-Systems
1000 | NTLM                                             | Operating-Systems                 | Operating-Systems