Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hashcat on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is hashcat
hashcat is:
Hashcat supports five unique modes of attack for over 300 highly-optimized
hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other
hardware accelerators on Linux, and has facilities to help enable
distributed password cracking.
Examples of hashcat supported hashing algorithms are:
MD5, HMAC-MD5, SHA1, HMAC-SHA1, MySQL323, MySQL4.1/MySQL5, phpass,
MD5(WordPress), MD5(phpBB3), MD5(Joomla), md5crypt, MD5(Unix),
FreeBSD MD5, Cisco-IOS, MD4, NTLM, Domain Cached Credentials (DCC),
MS Cache, SHA256, HMAC-SHA256, md5apr1, MD5(APR), Apache MD5, SHA512,
HMAC-SHA512, Cisco-PIX, Cisco-ASA, WPA/WPA2, Double MD5, bcrypt,
Blowfish(OpenBSD), MD5(Sun), Double SHA1, SHA-3(Keccak),Half MD5,
Password Safe SHA-256, IKE-PSK MD5, IKE-PSK SHA1,
NetNTLMv1-VANILLA/NetNTLMv1-ESS, NetNTLMv2, Cisco-IOS SHA256,
Android PIN, AIX {smd5}, AIX {ssha256}, AIX {ssha512}, AIX {ssha1},
GOST, GOST R 34, Fortigate (FortiOS), OS X v10.8+, GRUB 2, IPMI2, RAKP,
HMAC-SHA1, sha256crypt, SHA256(Unix), Drupal7, WBB3, scrypt, Cisco $8$,
Cisco $9$, Radmin2, Django (PBKDF2-SHA256), Cram MD5, SAP, iSSHA-1,
PrestaShop, PostgreSQL, Challenge-Response Authentication (MD5),
MySQL Challenge-Response, Authentication (SHA1),
SIP digest authentication (MD5), Plaintext, Joomla < 2.5.18, PostgreSQL,
osCommerce, xt:Commerce, Skype, nsldap, Netscape, LDAP, nsldaps,
SSHA-1(Base64), Oracle S: Type (Oracle 11+), SMF > v1.1, OS X v10.4,
v10.5, v10.6, EPi, Django (SHA-1), MSSQL(2000), MSSQL(2005),
PeopleSoft, EPiServer 6.x < v4, hMailServer, SSHA-512(Base64),
LDAP {SSHA512}, OS X v10.7, MSSQL(2012 & 2014), vBulletin < v3.8.5,
PHPS, vBulletin > v3.8.5, IPB2+, MyBB1.2+, Mediawiki B type,
WebEdition CMS, Redmine.
Hashcat offers multiple attack modes for obtaining effective and
complex coverage over a hash’s keyspace. These modes are:
- Brute-Force attack
- Combinator attack
- Dictionary attack
- Fingerprint attack
- Hybrid attack
- Mask attack
- Permutation attack
- Rule-based attack
- Table-Lookup attack
- Toggle-Case attack
- PRINCE attack
There are three methods to install hashcat on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hashcat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hashcat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hashcat
Install hashcat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hashcat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hashcat
Install hashcat Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hashcat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hashcat
How To Uninstall hashcat on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the hashcat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hashcat
Uninstall hashcat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hashcat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hashcat
Remove hashcat Configurations and Data
To remove hashcat configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hashcat
Remove hashcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hashcat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hashcat
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hashcat package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
