Hashcat Utilities

• Modes

Wordlists

• Combine wordlists

combinator wordlist.txt otherwordlist.txt > newwordlist.txt

• Create wordlist

hashcat --force <input.txt> -r /opt/hashcat/rules/best64.rule --stdout > wordlist.txt

Using Masks

• A mask can be set instead of a wordlist, this charset is then brute forced by iterating the charset
• Masks
• Bruteforcing seven lowerspace characters using SHA2-384 as an example

hashcat -m 10800 -a 3 hash.out ?l?l?l?l?l?l?l