john
Password cracker. More information: https://www.openwall.com/john/.
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Crack password hashes:
john {{path/to/hashes.txt}}
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Show passwords cracked:
john --show {{path/to/hashes.txt}}
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Display users' cracked passwords by user identifier from multiple files:
john --show --users={{user_ids}} {{path/to/hashes*}} {{path/to/other/hashes*}}
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Crack password hashes, using a custom wordlist:
john --wordlist={{path/to/wordlist.txt}} {{path/to/hashes.txt}}
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List available hash formats:
john --list=formats
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Crack password hashes, using a specific hash format:
john --format={{md5crypt}} {{path/to/hashes.txt}}
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Crack password hashes, enabling word mangling rules:
john --rules {{path/to/hashes.txt}}
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Restore an interrupted cracking session from a state file, e.g.
mycrack.rec
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john --restore={{path/to/mycrack.rec}}
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