Is it possible to have and use a dynamic dictionary for brute-forcing? [duplicate]

For some reason – totally useless for the question – I have this PDF file with a password I forgot and I have no way to remember. I know for a fact (the person who created and gave me this PDF told me so) that the password starts with &quo… Continue reading Is it possible to have and use a dynamic dictionary for brute-forcing? [duplicate]

John the Ripper / Hashcat rule, reject candidate if char at position X is the same as character at position Y

I’m using John to generate some wordlists and I’m trying to figure out the most optimized way to do the next step. What I want to do is add every possible 3 digit number to a set where the first digit of the number is not the same as the f… Continue reading John the Ripper / Hashcat rule, reject candidate if char at position X is the same as character at position Y

John the ripper unreadable password

I tried cracking the password of a pdf file using john the ripper. On running john –show
it outputs:

R�<����ϳS�A���ZI����{�/{�;��’F�mc���Ի�r~�h�A�AeB”����:NO PASSWORD:��f2��E6ơ�w����@�&�볾˱���[}��HS��K_9p��]�eώU#���h�(*d䚱�����޳�EJ… Continue reading John the ripper unreadable password