process_hashes.py

def process_hashes(hash_file):
    """Process the hashes in the provided file and return a dictionary."""
    # Create hashes of the hashes, lol
    with open(hash_file, 'r') as hash_dump:
        hashes = {}
        for line in hash_dump:
            # Ignore machine accounts
            if not '$' in line:
                # Separate DOMAIN\USER from NTLM and USER from DOMAIN
                array = line.split(':::')
                username = array[0].split('\\')[1]
                # Ignore the empty/no password NTLM hash
                if not array[1] == '31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0':
                    hashes[username] = array[1].strip()
    return hashes