This project demonstrates the capability of cracking SHA-1 hashed passwords using a combination of Python scripting and Hashcat. It aims to showcase the methods and tools used in ethical hacking to understand and improve password encryption techniques.
- Python script for generating password variants from a dictionary.
- Utilization of Hashcat for efficient brute-force attacks.
- Capable of cracking various patterns including numeric, alphanumeric, and dictionary-based passwords.
- Python 3.x
- Hashcat
- Crunch
- Access to a command-line interface
- Navigate to the Project Directory:
cd hash_cracking_project - Install Python Dependencies (if any):
pip install -r requirements.txt
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Load your dictionary file into the project directory.
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Place the SHA-1 hash file you want to crack in the project directory.
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Run the Python Script:
python3 hash_cracker.py -
For Hashcat execution, use the appropriate command based on your hash type and wordlist.
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** Run the hash_cracker.py to crack the hash values of the single word and doublw word combination
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** Run the hash_cracker_neumeric.py to crack the numeric password hashes.
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** Run the 3word_combination_crack.py to crack the word+word+word combination alternately Use hashcat to crack the 3word comnbination commands -----hashcat -a 1 dictionary.txt dictionary.txt --stdout > new_wrd.txt /// to create the two word wordlist and then combine it with the dictionary to perform the 3 word combination hash attack. -----hashcat -m 100 -a 1 password_sha1_RB.txt dictionary.txt new_wrd.txt -o cracked_passwords.txt --force ///// to crack the hash with 3 word combination
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** To crack the alpha numeric hash Use Crunch to generate the numeric keyspace "crunch 1 4 0123456789 -o nubers.txt > dev/null 2>&1" ///// command to creat the keyspace
use hashcat to perform the attack "hashcat -m 100 -a 1 password_sha1_RB.txt.txt dictionary.txt nubers.txt -o cracked.txt --force"
all the descriptions are there in the report, check it for more details.