Hashcat are a variety of tools to crack passwords in encrypted, it is very powerful for password recovery.
General Function:
- Multi-Threaded
- Free
- Multi-Hash (up to 24 million hashes)
- Multi-OS (Linux, Windows and OSX native binaries)
- Multi-Algo (MD4, MD5, SHA1, DCC, NTLM, MySQL, ...)
- SSE2 accelerated
- All Attack-Modes except Brute-Force and Permutation can be extended by rules
- Very fast Rule-engine
- Rules compatible with JTR and PasswordsPro
- Possible to resume or limit session
- Automatically recognizes recovered hashes from outfile at startup
- Can automatically generate random rules
- Load saltlist from an external file and then use them in a Brute-Force Attack variant
- Able to work in an distributed environment
- Specify multiple wordlists or multiple directories of wordlists
- Number of threads can be configured
- Lowest priority threads run on
- 30 + Algorithms is implemented with performance in mind
- ... and much more
