Cheatsheets/hashcat_cheatsheet.md

🔓 Hashcat Cheatsheet 🔑

Hashcat is a powerful password cracking tool. Here are some useful commands and examples:

Table of Contents

• Check GPUs
• Hash Types
• Attack Modes
• Wordlists
• Incremental Mode
• Custom Charsets
• Examples

🕵️‍♂️ Check GPUs

• hashcat -I 🖥️

Note: Check available GPUs on the system.

🗝️ Hash Types

• hashcat -m 0 🔐

Note: MD5.

• hashcat -m 1000 🔑

Note: NTLM.

• hashcat -m 2500 🔓

Note: WPA/WPA2.

• hashcat -m 22000 🔓

Note: WPA-PMKID-PBKDF2.

⚔️ Attack Modes

• hashcat -a 0 🗡️

Note: Straight attack.

• hashcat -a 3 🛡️

Note: Brute-force attack.

🪄 Wordlists

• hashcat -w 4 📘

Note: Set workload profile.

🔨 Incremental Mode

• -increment ♾️

Note: Enable incremental mode.

• -increment-min 8

Note: Set minimum password length.

• -increment-max 12

Note: Set maximum password length.

🎯 Custom Charsets

• ?d?l?u 🎲

Note: Digits, lowercase, uppercase letters.

• ?s ❇️

Note: Special characters.

• ?a 🎯

Note: All characters (lowercase, uppercase, digits, special).

💡 Examples

🚀 Brute force WPA2 PMKID hash:

hashcat -m 22000 -a 3 hash.hc22000 ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d 

• m 22000: WPA-PMKID-PBKDF2 hash.
• a 3: Brute-force attack.
• ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d: 8-digit brute-force mask.

⚡ Incremental attack on WPA2 hash:

hashcat -m 22000 hash.hc22000 --increment --increment-min 8 --increment-max 12 ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d

• -increment: Incremental mode.
• -increment-min 8: Min length 8.
• -increment-max 12: Max length 12.
• ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d: 8-12 digit incremental mask.