John Suite

John

John The Ripper is an open source toolsuite used to crack hashes and passwords

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Usage:

john --format=hashformat --wordlist=/path/to/wordlist /path/to/hashes.txt

--format is a non-required field, but will (typically) yield better results when used, it specifies the encryption format (Ex. md5crypt)

Unshadow

Unshadow is a program used to combine the /etc/passwd and the /etc/shadow files so that john can use them.

/etc/passwd contains users and corresponding information for those users essentially (users, groups, IDs, etc.)
/etc/shadow contains the hashed password for each user

Usage:

unshadow passwdfile shadowfile > output.txt

Zip2John

Zip2John is a program used to convert zip files to hashes

Usage:

zip2john zipfile.zip > output.txt

Rar2John

Rar2John is a program used to convert rar files to hashes

Usage:

rar2john zipfile.rar > output.txt

Ssh2John

Ssh2John is a program used to convert ssh files to hashes

Usage:

ssh2john id_rsa > output.txt