Hashcat Installation, Configuration and WPA2 Cracking
Once you have installed Ubuntu Server 18.04 onto your cracking station, you can run the following commands to install and configure hashcat.
sudo bash
apt install ocl-icd-libopencl1 git build-essential
mkdir /installs && mkdir /installs/apps && cd /installs/apps
git clone https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat
cd hashcat
git submodule update –init
make
cd ../
git clone https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat-utils
cd hashcat-utils/src
make
cp *.bin ../bin
Now you want to download your wordlists
mkdir /installs/apps/wordlists && cd /installs/apps/wordlists
wget https://github.com/brannondorsey/naive-hashcat/releases/download/data/rockyou.txt
Assuming you already have a WPA2 file to crack, you will now need to move the hccapx file to a directory on the cracking system
cd /installs/apps/hashcat
Cracking the WPA2 file with a wordlist:
./hashcat -m 2500 /crack/wpa2/wpa.hccapx /installs/apps/wordlists/rockyou.txt
Cracking with
To crack up to 8 digits :
./hashcat -m 2500 /crack/wpa2/wpa.hccapx -a 3 ?d,?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d –increment-min 1 –increment-max 16 –increment
./hashcat -m 2500 -r rules/best64.rule /crack/wpa2/wpa.hccapx /installs/apps/wordlists/rockyou.txt
