Hashcat

GPU-accelerated offline hash cracker — the standard tool for password recovery in offensive ops.

Quick Start

# Wordlist attack on NTLM hashes
hashcat -a 0 -m 1000 hashes.txt rockyou.txt

# Rule-based wordlist attack
hashcat -a 0 -m 1000 hashes.txt rockyou.txt -r /usr/share/hashcat/rules/best64.rule

# Mask brute-force (8-char, uppercase + digits)
hashcat -a 3 -m 1000 hashes.txt ?u?u?u?u?d?d?d?d

Attack Modes