Hashcat is the world’s fastest CPU-based password recovery tool.

While it’s not as fast as its GPU counterparts oclHashcat-plus and oclHashcat-lite, large lists can be easily split in half with a good dictionary and a bit of knowledge of the command switches.

Changelog v0.47

• added -m 123 = EPi
• added -m 1430 = sha256(unicode($pass).$salt)
• added -m 1440 = sha256($salt.unicode($pass))
• added -m 1441 = EPiServer 6.x >= v4
• added -m 1711 = SSHA-512(Base64), LDAP {SSHA512}
• added -m 1730 = sha512(unicode($pass).$salt)
• added -m 1740 = sha512($salt.unicode($pass))
• added -m 7400 = SHA-256(Unix)
• added -m 7600 = Redmine SHA1
• debug mode can now be used also together with -g, generate rule
• support added for using external salts together with mode 160 = HMAC-SHA1 (key = $salt)
• allow empty salt/key for HMAC algos
• allow variable rounds for hash modes 500, 1600, 1800, 3300, 7400 using rounds= specifier
• added –generate-rules-seed, sets seed used for randomization so rulesets can be reproduced
• added output-format type 8 (position:hash:plain)
• updated/added some hcchr charset files in /charsets, some new files: Bulgarian, Polish, Hungarian
• format output when using –show according to the –outfile-format option
• show mask length in status screen
• –disable-potfile in combination with –show or –left resulted in a crash, combination was disallowed

Features

• 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, AVX and XOP 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 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
• Threads run on lowest priority
• Supports hex-charset
• Supports hex-salt
• 90+ Algorithms implemented with performance in mind
• …and much more