Category Archives: wordlist

How to create a wordlist with Crunch that starts with a fixed word and is followed by a combination of numbers and special characters [migrated]

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How do I use crunch to create a wordlist that starts with a fixed word and is followed by a combination of numbers and special characters? Min length = 8 and max length = 10
Some examples
Helen123
Helen@12
Helen1234
Helen_567
Helen12345
H… Continue reading How to create a wordlist with Crunch that starts with a fixed word and is followed by a combination of numbers and special characters [migrated]→

Pentesters: Is it common for bruteforce/ dictionary attacks, e.g. for SSH username enumeration, to be successful in the real-world pentests? [closed]

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I am learning and practicing on vulnerable-by-design machines (vulnhub, metasploitable etc.). I found that this machine is running OpenSSH 7.5, and I tried a few exploits of Username enumeration from ExploitDB, which all ask for a wordlist… Continue reading Pentesters: Is it common for bruteforce/ dictionary attacks, e.g. for SSH username enumeration, to be successful in the real-world pentests? [closed]→

Is it feasible to run a program that generates passwords on the fly for brute force attacks to save disk space? [duplicate]

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The title is slightly confusing but what I mean is that if you are brute forcing every combination of a password, (not using leaked dictionaries like Rockyou.txt,) you can generate custom wordlists with tools such as crunch, and then brute… Continue reading Is it feasible to run a program that generates passwords on the fly for brute force attacks to save disk space? [duplicate]→

What’s the most simple approach to this wordlist generation and ruleset problem?

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This is a password recovery project, which is more complex than just generated a wordlist, since using my tries (see below) it seems to be not enough to just generate a wordlist.
I’m trying to recover my old Bitcoin wallet, which I created… Continue reading What’s the most simple approach to this wordlist generation and ruleset problem?→

Is there a simple way to generate complex password wordlists? [closed]

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I’ve had this encrypted box I’ve been locked out of for a few years. This week I decided to see if there wasn’t a way I could open it again. As you can guess my search pretty quickly turned up Hashcat and John the ripper.
It’s great that t… Continue reading Is there a simple way to generate complex password wordlists? [closed]→

How to crack KeePass database when knowing the first part of the master password [duplicate]

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I have a KeePass 2.47 database which is protected with a master password and a key file.
I managed to lose the 2nd part of my master password. So, I have access to the database, the key file and the first part of the master password (ftyhb… Continue reading How to crack KeePass database when knowing the first part of the master password [duplicate]→

Creating wordlist with no more than 2 repeating characters [migrated]

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I’m creating a wordlist with uppercase letters A-Z and numbers 0-9. The length is exactly 8 characters long. Using the tool crunch, preinstalled in Kali, I was able to generate a wordlist that doesn’t contain any consecutive characters, fo… Continue reading Creating wordlist with no more than 2 repeating characters [migrated]→