https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

advanced password recovery and also used for bad things

Installation

homebrew

1. install hashcat via brew
brew install hashcat

2. in this path are docs
/usr/local/Cellar/hashcat/3.40/share/doc/hashcat

3. more hashcat wiki
https://hashcat.net/wiki/

manual

1. go to https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ to download binary

Example Use

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1. get a md5 hash of string marcus and save it to a file
echo -n “marcus” | md5 > example.hash
echo -n - appends ⏎ to the end of marcus, without it the hash result will be different

2. execute the hashcat
hashcat -a 3 example.hash ‘?l?l?l?l?l?l’

• a - attack-mode. 3 meaning brute force
• example.hash - input file of hashes
• ‘?l?l?l?l?l?l’ - mask. this example is a character-set of 6 lowercase letters

example.hash contents

49c167d7cd66dc64a474c261860ba50f
49c167d7cd66dc64a474c261860ba50f
066e7118a17e9218c0ed60891a6c6260
49c167d7cd66dc64a474c261860ba50f
3f34cc1a190de4abb685afabf56f758a
49c167d7cd66dc64a474c261860ba50f
49c167d7cd66dc64a474c261860ba50f
6f33e764b910cd663ba9a03a6d5666f8
110d46fcd978c24f306cd7fa23464d73
a4757d7419ff3b48e92e90596f0e7548

hashcat -m 1800 -a 3 hashes.txt -o cracked.txt