Hashcat LAB
Hashcat Hashcat is a high-performance, open-source password-recovery / password-cracking framework designed to generate candidate passwords, compute their hashes with many algorithms, and compare those results to target hashes very quickly. It combines CPU and GPU acceleration, a powerful rule/mutation engine, multiple attack modes, utilities for large-scale cracking, and features for resuming/organizing work. Hashcat is widely used by security professionals for password auditing , forensic recovery of legitimately owned credentials, and research and it’s also a dual-use tool that can be abused if used without explicit authorization. When a system stores passwords it usually stores a hash (and often a salt) rather than the plaintext password. Hashcat’s job is to attempt to discover the original plaintext that produced that stored hash by: Generating candidate passwords according to an attack strategy (wordlists, rules, masks, combinatorics, PRINCE generator, etc.). ...