In infosec terms, a wordlist usually contains common & random words that might form a password or a list of words that are of interest with regards to your agenda. The words do not necessarily need to be comprehensible & understandable.
Questions tagged [wordlist]
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Creating a custom wordlist for MS Word
I have a Word document that is password protected. Am I wrong in assuming that if I know nothing about the password that it’s basically a waste of time trying to crack it?
I do remember it’s two short words put together.
My problem is I have no idea…
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Wordlist generator with a certain pattern
I am trying to generate a wordlist. I am using crunch but I am stuck at defining the pattern I want the words to be generated. For example, I want to define a rule such as this:
Password: Ameri948 ca#
Words: [A|a]meri[\d\d\d][space|no…
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why my Metasploit folder does not have wordlists folder (usr/share/)?
I am trying to use msf word-lists but I just noticed in usr/share/metasploit-framework there are only two folders lib and config.
I am not sure how that happened but my msf is updated.
Is there any way to fix this and replace what is missing or get…
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Danny
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Need help generating list with crunch
I am new to Kali Linux.
I am trying to generate a wordlist of 6- whatever character words where:
the first part is an English word that starts with a capital letter
the last 5 characters are 8765. It ends in a period
I've been trying for the last…
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How to generate a wordlist from a partially known password
I have an old USB drive encrypted with Truecrypt and can't read my password writing. I can't tell if it's a capital or lower case letter and not sure if it's a 0 or an o, a t or a + on about 7 spaces. I have basic computer knowledge and would really…
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How much time will Fugaku supercomputer take to generate a wordlist?
How much time will the Fugaku supercomputer take to generate a wordlist?
Length: 50
Combination: Alphabet(upper/lower) + numbers (0~9)
also, would wordlist generators make a significant time/performance difference?
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Mostafa Nafady
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Making custom wordlists for languages besides English
I'm testing a site whose audience doesn't usually have English as their main language. When it comes to non-English, I consider there to be 3 groups
The target language's alphabet is a subset of the English alphabet
This is easy. Just use…
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Breaking Wifi password knowing its length of 8 [A-Z] alpha (upper-case) characters using Hashcat
I got the WPA handshake, now it's turn to crack the password using Hashcat. First, I wanted to make a wordlist of passwords [A-Z] the length of 8, but Crunch (the tool in Kali Linux) said it will take 1TB of storage that I don't have available, so I…
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Peter Davis
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Specify Amount of type of character Crunch
I'm sure these questions pop up a lot, but I can't find one that does what I'm looking for.
So, I'm trying to use crunch to generate a wordlist with specific amounts of each type of character, i.e. 2 numbers, 1 symbol, 3 uppercase, 1 lowercase,…
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Seth Painter
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WPS - How to get all valid pins?
There are 10⁷ elements in WPS pin space, because one of the 8 digits is used as the checksum.
But the AP validates each half separately, resulting in 11,000 valid pins. Is it possible to generate all these 11k pins to a wordlist?
If it is possible,…
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How to pipe a character set on hydra
How to pipe a characterset to Hydra.
Something like this which can be done on hashcat
(crunch 8 8 123456789| hashcat -m 0 ce5cff0195a6b059a32411b6202ab49)
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officialstar
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Creating Wordlist from specific characters and numbers using Mentalist or similar program
I have locked myself out of my Win 10 Microsoft account by forgetting my password and need to get back into it. I have extracted the hash for the account.
I've been researching wordlists and hash cracking and think I've got a hang of the actual…
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John the ripper not able to crack the password
I generated two hashes from this site:
Plaintext 1 (p1): world
Salt 1 (s1): hello
Hash 1 (h1): 936a185caaa266bb9cbe981e9e05cb78cd732b0b3280eb944412bb6f8f8f07af
Plaintext 2 (p2): world2
Salt 2 (s2): hello2
Hash 2 (h2):…
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Making already hashed wordlists of all possible combinations
Let us imagine a situation where a company stores its user passwords (let's ignore salts, etc for now) using some hash (say sha256) and the company gets breached. All of the username and password details are now public. The passwords are hashed,…
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Is there a utility you would use to create wordlists from directories and files?
I have a home directory and a gpg file I am attempting to brute force. Is there a utility that you know that will recursively create wordlist from directives and file contents?
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