John The Ripper
By technese - Last updated: Friday, December 23, 2011 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment
Install or compile john the ripper binaries for your OS
Using John the Ripper password cracker, version 1.7.3.1
format of the file to be tested:
user:passwordhashtype – e.g. root:5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
`john` doesn’t get the hashtype correct for MD5, so we need to use –format
–format=NAME             force hash type NAME: DES/BSDI/MD5/BF/AFS/LM/NT/mscash/NETLM/NETNTLM/bfegg/DOMINOSEC/lotus5/raw-MD5/raw-sha1/IPB2/nsldap/openssha/HDAA
$ john root-md5.txt --format=raw-MD5 Loaded 1 password hash (Raw MD5 [raw-md5]) password (root)
guesses: 1Â time: 0:00:00:00 100% (2)Â c/s: 81100Â trying: 12345 - gandalf Also, online md5 databases reverse lookups are possible.
References:
http://www.netmd5crack.com/cracker
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