Crack The Hash Level 2 — TryHackMe

THM-CTH2

Advanced cracking hashes challenges and wordlist generation

Introduction

This is the write-up TryHackMe’s room named :- Crack The Hash Level 2

This room can be found here:- https://tryhackme.com/room/crackthehashlevel2

This is the second room in “Crack the Hash” series and it is recommended to finish Level 1 before trying this room which is available here:- https://tryhackme.com/room/crackthehash

Before we get in to cracking hashes, Tasks 1–5 talks about various tools and tricks about cracking and wordlist generation. We should read them first as that is what this room is all about — learning new tools and tricks.Here is the summary:

[ Hash identification ]

• Haiti — https://github.com/noraj/haiti/
  A CLI tool to identify the hash type of a given hash.

[ Wordlists ]

• Seclists — https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists
  SecLists is the security tester’s companion. It’s a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.
• wordlistctl — https://github.com/BlackArch/wordlistctl
  Fetch, install…