Password Cracking

In this section, I will talk about how to crack passwords that were hashed and how to crack password-based protections that rely on hash functions (many of them).

Tools

• Hashcat - World’s fastest password cracker.
• John The Ripper - Password security auditing and password recovery tool.
• fcrackzip - A program for cracking encrypted ZIP archives
• bkcrack - Crack legacy zip encryption with known plaintext attack.

Helpers

• keepass2john - Extract hash from KeePass .kdbx
• 7z2hashcat - Extract hashes from 7‑Zip archives

Resources