Pro Tips

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Everything related to hash functions. Frequently and rarely used commands.

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Generate hashes with John the Ripper(pass_gen.pl)
Generate-hashes-pass_gen.pl.txt

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A cheat-sheet for password crackers
Source: A_cheat-sheet_for_password_crackers
CHEAT_SHEET_unix_ninja.txt

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Information about hashes formats
Information_about_hashes_formats.txt

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Title: Analyze and create rules for large hashlists
Author: hashcat's developers
URL: https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=hashcat
Description: Analyze and create rules for large hashlists. In some cases, this could be useful.

Command: hashcat -m 0 large_hash_list wordlist -g 500000 --debug-mode=1 --debug-file=new.rule

-g, --generate-rules | Num | Generate X random rules
--debug-file | File | Output file for debugging rules

• [ Rule Debugging Modes ] -

  | Format
  ===+========
  1 | Finding-Rule
  2 | Original-Word
  3 | Original-Word:Finding-Rule
  4 | Original-Word:Finding-Rule:Processed-Word
  5 | Original-Word:Finding-Rule:Processed-Word:Wordlist

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Title: What is the correct format of a Houzz hash for hashcat?
Author: freeroute
URL: https://paste.hashpwn.net/?56c460ef65322356#B1ZEbFB7qiZRymJUeGZp2ygV4pR8fdyxw5kmjeckhdVi
Description: The correct format of Houzz hash for hashcat

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Title: Check the candidates generated by hashcat rule file
Author: freeroute
URL: https://paste.hashpwn.net/?e695c3709b553d0f#BX9utL4md1xmvirutURJYycRvCqRncAyhstWGMYNj9Mt

Description: Check the candidates generated by the Hashcat rule file.

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The above can be used with more words and rules to get a little bigger wordlist:

echo $'word1\nword2\nw0rd3' > words.txt

hashcat --force words.txt -r complex.rule --stdout | sort -u > candidates_words.txt