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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

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

Misc / Notable People

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

Specific file formats / ZIP

  • bkcrack

    Crack legacy zip encryption with Biham and Kocher's known plaintext attack

  • frackzip

    Small tool for cracking encrypted ZIP archives

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

Research / Articles and Blog Posts

Research / Papers

Research / Talks

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