From the course: Security Testing Essential Training
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Demo: Hashcat
From the course: Security Testing Essential Training
Demo: Hashcat
- [Instructor] Hashcat is a ridiculously powerful tool, so powerful that we could spend an entire course on just learning all the nuances of Hashcat. For this demo, I want to give you just enough experience that you can get started in using Hashcat with your own security assessments. As I mentioned, it's installed by default in Kali Linux, and if you open a command line from any prompt, all you have to do is type hashcat to get started. Now, I recommend that you type hashcat -h first so that you can display the help file. And this help file is very extensive, due largely in part to the fact that hashcat supports over 350 hash modes, with each hash mode detailed here in the help file. Now here you can see at the end there's some basic examples of how we would use hashcat, how we would build a command line string, but there are really two parameters that you should remember at a minimum. One is -a, which indicates the attack mode that we'll want to use when targeting a specific hash…
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