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A cheat sheet for password crackers
Borrowed from: http://www.unix-ninja.com/p/A_cheat-sheet_for_password_crackers
In this article I am going to share some bash scripting commands and regular expressions which I find useful in password cracking. Most of the time, we find hashes to crack via shared pastes websites (the most popular of them being Pastebin.) Isolating the hashes by hand can be a time consuming process; for that reason we are going to use regular expressions to make our life easier!
Extract md5 hashes
# egrep -oE '(^|[^a-fA-F0-9])[a-fA-F0-9]{32}(1|$)' *.txt | egrep -o '[a-fA-F0-9]{32}' > md5-hashes.txt
An alternative could be with sed
# sed -rn 's/.*[^a-fA-F0-9]([a-fA-F0-9]{32})[^a-fA-F0-9].*/1/p' *.txt > md5-hashes
Note: The above regexes can be used for SHA1, SHA256 and other unsalted hashes represented in hex. The only thing you have to do is change the '{32}' to the corresponding length for your desired hash-type.
Extract valid MySQL-Old hashes
# cat *.txt | grep -e "[0-7][0-9a-f]{7}[0-7][0-9a-f]{7}" > mysql-old-hashes.txt
Extract blowfish hashes
# cat *.txt | grep -e "$2a$8$(.){75}" > blowfish-hashes.txt
Extract Joomla hashes
# cat *.txt | egrep -o "([0-9a-zA-Z]{32}):(w{16,32})" > joomla.txt
Extract VBulletin hashes
# cat *.txt | egrep -o "([0-9a-zA-Z]{32}):(S{3,32})" > vbulletin.txt
Extraxt phpBB3-MD5
# cat *.txt | egrep -o '$H$S{31}' > phpBB3-md5.txt
Extract Wordpress-MD5
# cat *.txt | egrep -o '$P$S{31}' > wordpress-md5.txt
Extract Drupal 7
# cat *.txt | egrep -o '$S$S{52}' > drupal-7.txt
Extract old Unix-md5
# cat *.txt | egrep -o '$1$w{8}S{22}' > md5-unix-old.txt
Extract md5-apr1
# cat *.txt | egrep -o '$apr1$w{8}S{22}' > md5-apr1.txt
Extract sha512crypt, SHA512(Unix)
# cat *.txt | egrep -o '$6$w{8}S{86}' > sha512crypt.txt
Extract e-mails from text files
# cat *.txt | grep -E -o "[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+" > e-mails.txt
Extract HTTP URLs from text files
# cat *.txt | grep http | grep -shoP 'http.*?[" >]' > http-urls.txt
For extracting HTTPS, FTP and other URL format use # cat *.txt | grep -E '(((https|ftp|gopher)|mailto)[.:][^ >" ]*|www.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,; >">):]' > urls.txt
Note: if grep returns "Binary file (standard input) matches" use the following approaches # cat *.log | tr '[00-1113-37177-377]' '.' | grep -E "Your_Regex" OR # cat -v *.log | egrep -o "Your_Regex"
Extract Floating point numbers
# cat *.txt | grep -E -o "^[-+]?[0-9]*.?[0-9]+([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?$" > floats.txt
Extract credit card data
Visa # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "4[0-9]{3}[ -]?[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{4}" > visa.txt
MasterCard # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "5[0-9]{3}[ -]?[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{4}" > mastercard.txt
American Express # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "3[47][0-9]{13}" > americal-express.txt
Diners Club # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}" > diners.txt
Discover # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "6011[ -]?[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{4}" > discover.txt
JCB # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "(?:2131|1800|35d{3})d{11}" > jcb.txt
AMEX # cat *.txt | grep -E -o "3[47][0-9]{2}[ -]?[0-9]{6}[ -]?[0-9]{5}" > amex.txt
Extract Social Security Number (SSN)
# cat *.txt | grep -E -o "[0-9]{3}[ -]?[0-9]{2}[ -]?[0-9]{4}" > ssn.txt
Extract Indiana Driver License Number
# cat *.txt | grep -E -o "[0-9]{4}[ -]?[0-9]{2}[ -]?[0-9]{4}" > indiana-dln.txt
Extract US Passport Cards
# cat *.txt | grep -E -o "C0[0-9]{7}" > us-pass-card.txt
Extract US Passport Number
# cat *.txt | grep -E -o "[23][0-9]{8}" > us-pass-num.txt
Extract US Phone Numberss
# cat *.txt | grep -Po 'd{3}[s-_]?d{3}[s-_]?d{4}' > us-phones.txt
Extract ISBN Numbers
# cat *.txt | egrep -a -o "ISBN(?:-1[03])?:? (?=[0-9X]{10}$|(?=(?:[0-9]+[- ]){3})[- 0-9X]{13}$|97[89][0-9]{10}$|(?=(?:[0-9]+[- ]){4})[- 0-9]{17}$)(?:97[89][- ]?)?[0-9]{1,5}[- ]?[0-9]+[- ]?[0-9]+[- ]?[0-9X]" > isbn.txt
WordList Manipulation
Remove the space character with sed
# sed -i 's/ //g' file.txt OR # egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$" file.txt
Remove the last space character with sed
# sed -i s/.$// file.txt
Sorting Wordlists by Length
# awk '{print length, $0}' rockyou.txt | sort -n | cut -d " " -f2- > rockyou_length-list.txt
Convert uppercase to lowercase and the opposite
# cat file.txt | tr [A-Z] [a-z] > lower-case.txt
# cat file.txt | tr [a-z] [A-Z] > upper-case.txt
Remove blank lines with sed
# sed -i '/^$/d' List.txt
Remove defined character with sed
# sed -i "s/'//" file.txt
Delete a string with sed
# echo 'This is a foo test' | sed -e 's/<foo>//g'
Replace characters with tr
# cat emails.txt | tr '@' '#' OR # sed 's/@/#' file.txt
Print specific columns with awk
# awk -F "," '{print $3}' infile.csv > outfile.csv OR # cut -d "," -f 3 infile.csv > outfile.csv
Note: if you want to isolate all columns after column 3 use # cut -d "," -f 3- infile.csv > outfile.csv
Generate Random Passwords with urandom
# cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9._!@#$%^&*()' | fold -w 8 | head -n 500000 > wordlist.txt
# cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-_!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?=' | fold -w 12 | head -n 4
# cat /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -d '[^:alnum:]' | cut -c1-10 | head -2
# cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 10 | head -n 4
# cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-_!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?='|fold -w 12| head -n 4| grep -i '[!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?=]'
# < /dev/urandom tr -dc '[:print:]' |fold -w 10| head -n 10
# tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom | fold -w30 | head -n2
Remove Parenthesis with tr
# cat in_file | tr -d '()' > out_file
Generate wordlists from your file-names
# ls -A | sed 's/regexp/& /g'
Process text files when cat is unable to handle strange characters
# sed 's/([[:alnum:]]*)[[:space:]]*(.)(..*)/12/' *.txt
Generate length based wordlists with awk
# awk 'length == 10' file.txt > 10-length.txt
Merge two different txt files
# paste -d' ' file1.txt file2.txt > new-file.txt
Faster sorting
# export alias sort='sort --parallel=<number_of_cpu_cores> -S <amount_of_memory>G ' && export LC_ALL='C' && cat file.txt | sort -u > new-file.txt
Mac to unix
# tr '15' '12' < in_file > out_file
Dos to Unix
# dos2unix file.txt
Unix to Dos
# unix2dos file.txt
Remove from one file what is in another file
# grep -F -v -f file1.txt -w file2.txt > file3.txt
Isolate specific line numbers with sed
# sed -n '1,100p' test.file > file.out
Create Wordlists from PDF files
# pdftotext file.pdf file.txt
Find the line number of a string inside a file
# awk '{ print NR, $0 }' file.txt | grep "string-to-grep"
Faster filtering with the silver searcher
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
For faster grepping use all the above grep regular expressions with the command ag. The following is a proof of concept of its speed:
# time cat *.txt | ack-grep -o "[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+" > /dev/null
real 1m2.447s
user 1m2.297s
sys 0m0.645s
# time cat *.txt | egrep -o "[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+" > /dev/null
real 0m30.484s
user 0m30.292s
sys 0m0.310s
# time cat *.txt | ag -o "[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.#?$*_-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+" > /dev/null
real 0m4.908s
user 0m4.820s
sys 0m0.277s
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