John the Ripper (john
) is a common password cracking tool with graphics card support through OpenCL. John the Ripper has a built-in ruleset for extending wordlists, which can be enabled by turning on the --rules
switch.
Crack Shadow
To crack shadow hashes, convert the file to a format usable by john (converters exist, just use tab autocomplete), and save the hash in a file. For instance, to convert a shadow
and passwd
file into john format:
Mutate wordlists with rules
Generate a new wordlist using the prebuilt wordlist rules (see [List.Rules:Wordlist]
in /etc/john/john.conf
):