we will crack the password based on a wordlist we have.
hashcat -a 0 -m 1000 crackme.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
we got the password
We only got hte password as it exists in the wordlist but what if it’s not existing!? Follow The following techniques to gain more Knowledge in Hash Cracking
In this part we will add a custom role to hashcat which will append the Years to the End Of Each Password
First Let’s create our rule
sudo vim /usr/share/hashcat/rules/add-year.rule
Notice that we added 2020 and 2025 to be appended to our wordlist
Now let’s see if Summer2025 is a password in the rockyou wordlist
cat /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt | grep "Summer2025"
Notice that it’s not there
Now let’s search for the word “Summer”
cat /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt | grep "Summer"
