Targinator - The Infinitely Targeted Self-Combinator

[Vavaldi]

Title: Targinator
Author: Vavaldi, cyclone, Flagg
URL: https://github.com/0xVavaldi/Targinator
Description: Targinator combines a wordlist with your hints in every possible way and now also injects new words into it on every possible position. Ideal for highly targeted attacks.

.\targinator.exe --help
Usage: Targinator <target> [<wordlists> ...] [flags]

A self-combinator using a targeted and generic wordlist - v0.0.1-2025-06-07-dev

Arguments:
  <target>             Path to target data file (must fit in memory)
  [<wordlists> ...]    Path to wordlist files or directory

Flags:
  -h, --help                   Show context-sensitive help.
  -m, --min-target=1           Minimum target occurrences
  -x, --max-target=3           Maximum target occurrences
  -t, --target-rules=""        Apply rules file to Target
  -r, --wordlist-rules=""      Apply rules file to Wordlist, warning: forces
                               wordlist memory
  -s, --separator=""           Word Separator
  -o, --output-file=""         Output File
      --keyspace               Show keyspace for attack (used for HTP)
      --skip=0                 Skip initial N generated candidates (used for
                               HTP)
      --limit=0                Stop attack early after N generated candidates
                               (used for HTP)
      --self-combination       Combine without using a wordlist [default: True]
      --partial-deduplicate    Help reduce the amount of duplicates
      --debug                  Show Debug Messages

[cyclone]

For those new to running Targinator, below is a good command to start with until you get familiar with the CLI flags:

./targinator target_wordlist.txt ignis-10M.txt -x 1 -t cyclone_250.rule

Example wordlist: ignis-10M.txt
Example rules: cyclone_250.rule

A few things to keep in mind:

• Use a small target wordlist (first wordlist in the CLI)
  • Do not use a large target wordlist or you will run into large memory usage
• Set -x nth to your desired max target word occurrence (start small, default is -x 3)
• Use -t nth to set rules for the target wordlist (recommended)
• If desired, use -r nth to set rules for the wordlist (second wordlist in the CLI)

Below is a quick, color-coded breakdown of the CLI to help visualize which wordlist each flag affects:

[v1cvap0r]

Number of cpu threads used by default? Can't limit the number of threads, in case we also run a cpu cracker?

[cyclone]

@v1cvap0r Targinator currently calls runtime.NumCPU() for parallel processing which defaults to all available CPU threads. Adding an option to allow user-specified CPU threads is an option, but not currently implemented.