Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! Continuing with my series on, I now want to introduce you to one of the newest and best designed password crackers out there—.
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The beauty of hashcat is in its design, which focuses on speed and versatility. It enables us to crack multiple types of hashes, in multiple ways, very fast. As mentioned in of this series, passwords are stored in a one-way encryption called hashes. There are multiple ways of obtaining these hashes, such as.dll injection in Windows systems or capturing the hash in transit, such as in.
Once we can grab the hash, the next step becomes one of finding an effective and efficient way of cracking it. There are numerous tools, some of which I have highlighted in other articles here, but hashcat is unique in its design and versatility, so let's take a look at how it works. Ar condicionado york gz-12a-e1 manual download. Step 1: Fire Up Kali & Open Hashcat Let's start by firing up and opening hashcat.
Go to Applications -> Kali Linux -> Password Attacks -> Offline Attacks -> hashcat, as seen below. At the top of the screen, you can see the basic hashcat syntax: kali > hashcat options hashfile mask|wordfiles|directories We can see some of the options for hashcat displayed below the basic syntax. Some of the most important of these are -m (the hashtype) and -a (attack mode). In general, we will need to use both of these options in most password cracking attempts with hashcat. Step 2: More Extensive Options If we scan a bit further down this hashcat help screen, we can see more options. The first two below are some of the key options that hashcat enables.
First, hashcat enables rules that allow us to apply specifically designed rules to use on our wordlist file. These rules can take our wordlist file and apply capitalization rules, special characters, word combinations, appended and prepended numbers, and so on. Each of these will help us to break passwords that have been made more complex to avoid dictionary attacks. To prepare this file for cracking, we need to remove all of the information in this file, except the hashes.
The /etc/shadow file includes the username, then the salted hash, and then information about the applicable user policy. We need to remove all that information leaving just the hash. We can see that this file starts with the username, i.e., 'user1', 'user2', etc.
Open this file in your favorite text editor (vim, vi, leafpad) and delete the username and the following colon. Then, go to the end of the line and remove the information after the hash that starts with a colon (:). Now we will have a file with just the hashes and nothing else. In the final step, we can now start cracking the hashes. Here's the command I used. Kali > hashcat -m 1800 -a 0 -o cracked.txt --remove hash.lst /usr/share/sqlmap/txt/wordlist.txt • -m 1800 designates the type of hash we are cracking (SHA-512) • -a 0 designates a dictionary attack • -o cracked.txt is the output file for the cracked passwords • --remove tells hashcat to remove the hash after it has been cracked • hash.lst is our input file of hashes • /usr/share/sqlmap/txt/wordlist.txt is the absolute path to our wordlist for this dictionary attack.