Hashcat
Hashcat comes pre-installed in Kali and Parrot OS. In addition to Hashcat, also download a wordlist like the 10-million-password-list-top-100.txt or rockyou.txt. It contains a list of commonly used passwords and is popular among pen testers. You can find the Rockyou wordlist under /usr/share/wordlists
in Kali Linux.
And the mode (-m
) for the type of hash.
For example, the hash mode value for SHA1 is 100
, and for doing a dictionary attack (-a 0
):
$ hashcat -m 100 -a 0 sha1.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt