Crack hashes with John

[bzsinger]

Install John on Windows

[bzsinger]

Pre-requisites:

• Download Windows version of John
• Extract all files (unzip)
• Download rockyou.txt

Script:

• Runs John on pre-determined hashes file
• Puts John results in file
• Performs regex search over results and extracts usernames and passwords
• Writes usernames and passwords to new file

[bzsinger]

.\john\run\john -wordlist:./rockyou.txt -format=<format> ./hashes.txt

.\john\run\john --show ./hashes.txt > john_results.txt

Get-Content john_results.txt |
Select-String -Pattern (\w*):(\w*) |
% { $_.Matches } |
foreach { Write-Output "$($_.Groups[1]):$($_.Groups[2])" } > usernames.txt

[manahan-joseph]

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