hashcat

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Fast and advanced password recovery tool.

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Options (3)

-m, --hash-typeboolean

Perform a brute-force attack (mode 3) with the default hashcat mask

Example: hashcat {{[-m|--hash-type]}} {{hash_type_id}} {{[-a|--attack-mode]}} 3 {{hash_value}}

-a, --attack-modeboolean

Perform a brute-force attack (mode 3) with the default hashcat mask

Example: hashcat {{[-m|--hash-type]}} {{hash_type_id}} {{[-a|--attack-mode]}} 3 {{hash_value}}

-r, --rules-fileboolean

Run a dictionary attack (mode 0) using the specified wordlist, applying rule-based transformations to mutate candidate passwords

Example:

hashcat {{[-m|--hash-type]}} {{hash_type_id}} {{[-a|--attack-mode]}} 0 {{[-r|--rules-file]}} {{path/to/file.rule}} {{hash_value}} {{path/to/wordlist.txt}}

Examples (8)

Perform a brute-force attack (mode 3) with the default hashcat mask

hashcat [-m|--hash-type] hash_type_id [-a|--attack-mode] 3 hash_value

Perform a brute-force attack (mode 3) with a known pattern of 4 digits

hashcat [-m|--hash-type] hash_type_id [-a|--attack-mode] 3 hash_value "?d?d?d?d"

Perform a brute-force attack (mode 3) using at most 8 of all printable ASCII characters

hashcat [-m|--hash-type] hash_type_id [-a|--attack-mode] 3 --increment hash_value "?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a"

Perform a dictionary attack (mode 0) using a wordlist

hashcat [-m|--hash-type] hash_type_id [-a|--attack-mode] 0 hash_value path/to/wordlist.txt

Run a dictionary attack (mode 0) using the specified wordlist, applying rule-based transformations to mutate candidate passwords

hashcat [-m|--hash-type] hash_type_id [-a|--attack-mode] 0 [-r|--rules-file] path/to/file.rule hash_value path/to/wordlist.txt

Perform a combination attack (mode 1) using the concatenation of words from two different custom dictionaries

hashcat [-m|--hash-type] hash_type_id [-a|--attack-mode] 1 hash_value path/to/dictionary1.txt path/to/dictionary2.txt

Show result of an already cracked hash

hashcat --show hash_value

Show all example hashes

hashcat --example-hashes

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