awesome-password-cracking
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A curated list of awesome tools, research, papers and other projects related to password cracking and password security.
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Password Cracking Collection
A curated list of tools, research, and projects related to password cracking and security
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Books
- Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual (v3)
Password Cracking Manual v3 is an expanded reference guide for password recovery (cracking) methods, tools, and analysis techniques
Cloud
Cloud_crack
Crack passwords using Terraform and AWS
Cloudcat
A script to automate the creation of cloud infrastructure for hash cracking
Cloudstomp
Automated deployment of instances on EC2 via plugin for high CPU/GPU applications at the lowest price
Cloudtopolis
A tool that facilitates the installation and provisioning of Hashtopolis on the Google Cloud Shell platform, quickly and completely unattended (and also, free!)
NPK
NPK is a distributed hash-cracking platform built entirely of serverless components in AWS including Cognito, DynamoDB, and S3
Penglab
Abuse of Google Colab for cracking hashes
Rook
Automates the creation of AWS p3 instances for use in GPU-based password cracking
Conversion
7z2hashcat
Extract information from password-protected .7z archives (and .sfx files) such that you can crack these "hashes" with hashcat
MacinHash
Convert macOS plist password file to hash file for password crackers
NetNTLM-Hashcat
Converts John The Ripper/Cain format hashes (singular, or in bulk) to HashCat compatible hash format
Rubeus-to-Hashcat
Converts / formats Rubeus kerberoasting output into hashcat readable format
WINHELLO2hashcat
With this tool one can extract the "hash" from a WINDOWS HELLO PIN. This hash can be cracked with Hashcat
bitwarden2hashcat
A tool that converts Bitwarden's data into a hashcat-suitable hash
hc_to_7z
Convert 7-Zip hashcat hashes back to 7z archives
hcxtools
Portable solution for conversion of cap/pcap/pcapng (gz compressed) WiFi dump files to hashcat formats
itunes_backup2hashcat
Extract the information needed from the Manifest.plist files to convert it to hashes compatible with hashcat
mongodb2hashcat
Extract hashes from the MongoDB database server to a hash format that hashcat accepts: -m 24100 (SCRAM-SHA-1) or -m 24200 (SCRAM-SHA-256)
Hashcat
Autocrack
A set of client and server tools for automatically, and lightly automatically cracking hashes
docker-hashcat
Latest hashcat docker for Ubuntu 18.04 CUDA, OpenCL, and POCL
- hashcat.launcher
Hashcat.launcher is a cross-platform GUI app that run and control hashcat
Hashcat-Stuffs
Collection of hashcat lists and things
hashcat-utils
Small utilities that are useful in advanced password cracking
Hashfilter
Read a hashcat potfile and parse different types into a sqlite database
known_hosts-hashcat
A guide and tool for cracking ssh known_hosts files with hashcat
pyhashcat
Python C API binding to libhashcat
Hashcat / Automation
autocrack
Hashcat wrapper to help automate the cracking process
hat
An Automated Hashcat Tool for common wordlists and rules to speed up the process of cracking hashes during engagements
hate_crack
A tool for automating cracking methodologies through Hashcat from the TrustedSec team
Naive hashcat
Naive hashcat is a plug-and-play script that is pre-configured with naive, emperically-tested, "good enough" parameters/attack types
Hashcat / Distributed cracking
CrackLord
Queue and resource system for cracking passwords
fitcrack
A hashcat-based distributed password cracking system
Hashstation
Hashstation is a BOINC-based distributed password cracking system with a built-in web interface
Hashtopolis
A multi-platform client-server tool for distributing hashcat tasks to multiple computers
Kraken
A multi-platform distributed brute-force password cracking system
Hashcat / Rules
clem9669 rules
Rule for hashcat or john
hashcat rules collection
Probably the largest collection of hashcat rules out there
Hob0Rules
Password cracking rules for Hashcat based on statistics and industry patterns
Kaonashi
Wordlist, rules and masks from Kaonashi project (RootedCON 2019)
nsa-rules
Password cracking rules and masks for hashcat generated from cracked passwords
nyxgeek-rules
Custom password cracking rules for Hashcat and John the Ripper
OneRuleToRuleThemAll
"One rule to crack all passwords. or atleast we hope so."
OneRuleToRuleThemStill
"A revamped and updated version of my original OneRuleToRuleThemAll hashcat rule."
pantagrule
Large hashcat rulesets generated from real-world compromised passwords
Hashcat / Rule tools
duprule
Detect & filter duplicate hashcat rules
ruleprocessorY
A next-gen Rule processor with complex multibyte character support built to support Hashcat
Hashcat / Web interfaces
crackerjack
CrackerJack is a Web GUI for Hashcat developed in Python
CrackQ
A Python Hashcat cracking queue system
hashpass
Hash cracking WebApp & Server for hashcat
Hashview
A web front-end for password cracking and analytics
Wavecrack
Wavestone's web interface for password cracking with hashcat
WebHashCat
WebHashcat is a very simple but efficient web interface for hashcat password cracking tool
John the Ripper
BitCracker
BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker
johnny
GUI frontend to John the Ripper
Misc
hashgen
Hashgen is a simple yet very fast CLI hash generator written in Go and cross compiled for Linux, Windows & Mac
Name That Hash
Don't know what type of hash it is? Name That Hash will name that hash type! Identify MD5, SHA256 and 300+ other hashes. Comes with a neat web app
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Websites / Communities
- hashcat Forum
Forum by the developers of hashcat
- Hashmob
A growing password recovery community aimed towards being a center point of collaboration for cryptography enthusiasts. Huge wordlist collection and a lookup service too
- Hashkiller Forum
A password cracking forum with over 20,000 registered users
Websites / Lookup services
- CMD5
Provides online MD5 / sha1/ mysql / sha256 encryption and decryption services
- CrackStation
Free hash lookup service supplying wordlists as well
gohashmob
Go CLI app to quickly lookup hashes using the HashMob API
- Hashes.com
A hash lookup service with paid features
- Hashkiller
A hash lookup service with a forum
- Online Hash Crack
Cloud password recovery service
Wordlist tools / Analysis
PACK
A collection of utilities developed to aid in analysis of password lists in order to enhance password cracking through pattern detection of masks, rules, character-sets and other password characteristics
password-smelter
Ingests passwords from hashcat, etc. and outputs to HTML, Markdown, XLSX, PNG, JSON. Dark and light themes supported. Compliments password-stretcher
password-stretcher
Generate "disgusting quantities" of passwords from websites, files, or stdin. Compliments password-smelter
pcfg_cracker
This project uses machine learning to identify password creation habits of users
Pipal
THE password analyser
Graphcat
Generate graphs and charts based on password cracking result
Wordlist tools / Generation/Manipulation
accent_permutator
A tool to transform characters from ASCII / UTF-8 to accented characters such as "o" to "ò"
anew
Append lines from stdin to a file, but only if they don't already appear in the file. Outputs new lines to stdout too, making it a bit like a tee -a that removes duplicates
bopscrk
Generate smart and powerful wordlists for targeted attacks. Includes song lyrics fetching and different transforms
common-substr
Simple tool to extract the most common substrings from an input text. Built for password cracking
- Crunch
Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify. Crunch can generate all possible combinations and permutations
CUPP
A tool that lets you generate wordlists by user profiling data such as birthday, nickname, address, name of a pet or relative etc
duplicut
Remove duplicates from MASSIVE wordlist, without sorting it (for dictionary-based password cracking)
Gorilla
Tool for generating wordlists or extending an existing one using mutations
Gramify
Create n-grams of wordlists based on words, characters, or charsets to use in offline password attacks and data analysis
Elpscrk
Elpscrk is like cupp, but it's based on permutations and statistics while being memory efficient
Keyboard-Walk-Generators
Generate Keyboard Walk Dictionaries for cracking
kwprocessor
Advanced keyboard-walk generator with configureable basechars, keymap and routes
- maskcat
Utility tool for Hashcat Masks and Password Cracking
maskprocessor
High-performance word generator with a per-position configureable charset
maskuni
A standalone fast word generator in the spirit of hashcat's mask generator with unicode support
Mentalist
Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper
PTT
The Password Transformation Tool (ptt) is a versatile utility designed for password cracking. It facilitates the creation of custom rules and transformations, as well as the generation of wordlists. This tool supports processing data from files, URLs, and standard input, streamlining cracking workflows
Phraser
Phraser is a phrase generator using n-grams and Markov chains to generate phrases for passphrase cracking
princeprocessor
Standalone password candidate generator using the PRINCE algorithm
Rephraser
A Python-based reimagining of Phraser using Markov-chains for linguistically-correct password cracking
Rling
RLI Next Gen (Rling), a faster multi-threaded, feature rich alternative to rli found in hashcat utilities
statsprocessor
Word generator based on per-position markov-chains
StringZilla
Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle for long strings and multi-gigabyte files in Python and C
TTPassGen
Flexible and scriptable password dictionary generator which supportss brute-force, combination, complex rule modes etc
token-reverser
Words list generator to crack security tokens
WikiRaider
WikiRaider enables you to generate wordlists based on country specific databases of Wikipedia
Wordlists / Laguage specific
Albanian wordlist
A mix of names, last names and some albanian literature
Danish Phone Wordlist Generator
This tool can generate wordlists of Danish phone numbers by area and/or usage (Mobile, landline etc.) Useful for password cracking or fuzzing Danish targets
Danish Wordlists
Collection of danish wordlists for cracking danish passwords
French Wordlists
This project aim to provide french word list about everything a person could use as a base password
Wordlists / Other
- Packet Storm Wordlists
A substantial collection of different wordlists in multiple languages
- Rocktastic
Includes many permutations of passwords and patterns that have been observed in the wild
RockYou2021
RockYou2021.txt is a MASSIVE WORDLIST compiled of various other wordlists
- WeakPass
Collection of large wordlists
Specific file formats / PDF
pdfrip
A multi-threaded PDF password cracking utility equipped with commonly encountered password format builders and dictionary attacks
Specific file formats / JKS
JKS private key cracker
Cracking passwords of private key entries in a JKS file
Specific file formats / ZIP
Artificial Intelligence
adams
Reducing Bias in Modeling Real-world Password Strength via Deep Learning and Dynamic Dictionaries
neural network cracking
Code for cracking passwords with neural networks
RNN-Passwords
Using the char-rnn to learn and guess passwords
rulesfinder
This tool finds efficient password mangling rules (for John the Ripper or Hashcat) for a given dictionary and a list of passwords
PassGPT
PassGPT is a GPT-2 model trained from scratch on password leaks
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