Advanced password recovery

Basics

Installation:

You can download Hashcat from https://hashcat.net/hashcat/.

Example:

hashcat64.exe -a 0 -m 0 example0.hash example.dict -r rules/best64.rule

Dictionary Attack:

hashcat64.exe -a 0 -m 0 example_md5_hashes.txt combined_seclists_password_list.txt -O

Note: Consider using -w 4 for workload optimized

Mask attack

?l = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 
?u = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 
?d = 0123456789 
?h = 0123456789abcdef 
?H = 0123456789ABCDEF 
?s = «space»!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ 
?a = ?l?u?d?s 
?b = 0x00 - 0xff

example:

root@attackdefense:~# hashcat -m 10400 -a 3 pdfnew ?d?d?d?d198?d?u --force

Using different charset:

hashcat -m 0 -a 3 -1 ?l?d hash2 ?1?1?1?1 --force