hashcat -m 1000 -a 6 myfile.hc rockyou.txt ?d?d?d?d Tries password1234 , iloveyou0000 , etc. Concatenate two wordlists:
aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0:password123 Mask attacks try every combination of characters. Example: 8-character lowercase alphabetic password. how to decrypt hc file
cleaned = [] for line in lines: line = line.strip() if line and not line.startswith('#'): # Remove colon if no plaintext if ':' in line and len(line.split(':')) == 2: hash_part = line.split(':')[0] cleaned.append(hash_part) else: cleaned.append(line) hashcat -m 1000 -a 6 myfile
with open(output_file, 'w') as outfile: outfile.write('\n'.join(cleaned)) 'w') as outfile: outfile.write('\n'.join(cleaned))