Hash cracking

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Hashcat

Hashcat's syntax requires several things. First, the specification of a mode, via the -a flag followed by a single digit. As an example, the -a 0 mode is "dictionnary attack", which is honestly pretty self-explanatory.

haschat -a [mode] -m [id of the type of hash] [file to crack] [wordlist path if used]

The hashtype ids can be found here ; https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

The most popular ones include ; -1800, for sha512crypt, used in UNIX systems -3200, for bcrypt, a popular format used in webapps -5600, for NetNTLMv2, for windows ntlm hashes