Hashcat

• “World’s fastest password cracker”
• used to crack hashes
  It allows you to use graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the password-cracking process.
• Hashcat comes with Kali Linux and other penetration testing Linux distributions. You can also download it from https://hashcat.net/hashcat ↗.

hashcat -m 0 [hashes] [dictionary]

plaintext

• -m specifies hash type
  • 0 - md5
• -a specifies attack mode
  • 0 = Straight
  • 1 = Combination
  • 3 = Brute-force
  • 6 = Hybrid Wordlist + Mask
  • 7 = Hybrid Mask + Wordlist
• -o specifies the output file

eg: hashcat -m 0 -a 0 -o cracked.txt hashes.txt /usr/share/wordlist/rockyou.txt