hashcat v0.45 in the wild
Hashcat is the world’s fastest CPU-based password recovery tool.
While it’s not as fast as its GPU counterparts oclHashcat-plus and oclHashcat-lite, large lists can be easily split in half with a good dictionary and a bit of knowledge of the command switches.
Features
- Multi-Threaded
- Free
- Multi-Hash (up to 24 million hashes)
- Multi-OS (Linux, Windows and OSX native binaries)
- Multi-Algo (MD4, MD5, SHA1, DCC, NTLM, MySQL, …)
- SSE2 accelerated
- All Attack-Modes except Brute-Force and Permutation can be extended by rules
- Very fast Rule-engine
- Rules compatible with JTR and PasswordsPro
- Possible to resume or limit session
- Automatically recognizes recovered hashes from outfile at startup
- Can automatically generate random rules
- Load saltlist from external file and then use them in a Brute-Force Attack variant
- Able to work in an distributed environment
- Specify multiple wordlists or multiple directories of wordlists
- Number of threads can be configured
- Threads run on lowest priority
- Supports hex-charset
- Supports hex-salt
- 30+ Algorithms implemented with performance in mind
