// what it is
Description
atom's brilliant cross-platform cracker with native GPU support via OpenCL/CUDA. Mode numbers (`-m 0`, `-m 1000`, `-m 1800`) select the algorithm; attack modes (`-a 0`, `-a 3`) select the strategy. The reason no modern password cracking session uses anything else.
// use cases
What people use it for
- Offline password hash cracking
- Custom rule-based mutation attacks
- Mask + brute combinations
// commands
The commands you'll type
NTLM dictionary
$ hashcat -m 1000 -a 0 ntds.txt rockyou.txtMD5 with rule mutations
$ hashcat -m 0 -a 0 hashes.txt rockyou.txt -r rules/best64.rule8-char alphanumeric mask
$ hashcat -m 1800 -a 3 hashes.txt ?l?l?l?l?d?d?d?d