gojwtcrack

Fast JSON Web Token (JWT) cracker. Currently supports dictionary attacks against HS256.

Installation

Binaries

Compiled 64-bit executable files for Windows, Mac and Linux are available here

Go get

If you would prefer to build yourself (and Go is setup correctly):

go get -u github.com/x1sec/gojwtcrack

Building from source

If you prefer to compile yourself:

$ go build -o gojwtcrack main.go

Running

Place a token into a text file and specify this file with the -t flag. The file containing a list of secrets (e.g. password dictionary file) can either be specified with the -d flag or piped in via stdin, e.g.

$ cat rockyou.txt | ./gojwtcrack -t mytoken.txt

Help file:

Usage of ./gojwtcrack:
  -c int
    	set concurrent workers (default 10)
  -d string
    	Dictionary file. If ommited, will read from stdin
  -t string
    	File containing JWT token(s)

Example:

$ ./gojwtcrack -t token.txt -d ~/SecLists/Passwords/xato-net-10-million-passwords-1000000.txt
secret123	eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.y3kjst36zujMF4HssVk3Uqxf_3bzumNAvOB9N0_uRV4

Benchmark

Cracking a token that uses a secret contained in the last entry of 3.7 million long dictionary file on a Intel 2.8Ghz i5. Comparing against an another JWT cracking program (jwtcat - chosen arbitrarily from a Google search) shows a 48.8% speed increase when using jwtcrack.

Program	Execution time
gojwtcrack	3.4 seconds
jwtcat	166 seconds

Dictionary size:

$ wc -l  openwall.net-all.txt 
3721224 openwall.net-all.txt

Last passphrase in dictionary file:

$ tail -1 openwall.net-all.txt 
ex-wethouder

Execution time with gojwtcrack :

time ./gojwtcrack -t token.txt -d openwall.net-all.txt 
ex-wethouder	eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.L1UzzeBYF7-NCBw-_1AJ1pihxG3pbJwOfbbzG86Qhe0

real	0m3.470s
user	0m9.986s
sys	0m0.085s

Execution time with jwtcat :

time python3 jwtcat.py -t eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.L1UzzeBYF7-NCBw-_1AJ1pihxG3pbJwOfbbzG86Qhe0 -w openwall.net-all.txt
<.. cut ..>
[INFO] Secret key: ex-wethouder
[INFO] Secret key saved to location: jwtpot.potfile
[INFO] Finished in 166.24219918251038 sec

real	2m46.317s
user	2m46.235s
sys	0m0.056s

TODO

• Support cracking multiple tokens in input text file
• Support brute force cracking (permutations in character set)