hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 300 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking. Download the latest release and unpack it in the desired location. Please remember to use 7z x when unpacking the archive from the command line to ensure full file paths remain intact. Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system). Supports password candidate brain functionality. Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay). Supports interactive pause / resume. Supports sessions. Supports restore. Supports reading password candidates from file and stdin. Supports hex-salt and hex-charset. Supports automatic performance tuning. Supports automatic keyspace ordering markov-chains.
Features
- hashcat is licensed under the MIT license
- Multi-OS (Linux, Windows and macOS)
- Multi-Platform (CPU, GPU, APU, etc., everything that comes with an OpenCL runtime)
- Multi-Hash (Cracking multiple hashes at the same time)
- Multi-Devices (Utilizing multiple devices in same system)
- Supports password candidate brain functionality