Password cracking rules for Hashcat based on statistics and industry patterns. The following blog posts on passwords explain the statistical signifigance of these rulesets:

• Statistics Will Crack Your Password
• Praetorian Password Cracking Rules Released

Useful wordlists to utilize with these rules have been included in the wordlists directory
Uncompress these with the unfollowing command

gunzip rockyou.txt.gz

hob064
This ruleset contains 64 of the most frequent password patterns used to crack passwords. Need a hash cracked quickly to move on to more testing? Use this list.

hashcat -a 0 -m 1000 <NTLMHASHES> wordlists/rockyou.txt -r hob064.rule -o cracked.txt

d3adhob0
This ruleset is much more extensive and utilizes many common password structure ideas seen across every industry. Looking to spend several hours to crack many more hashes? Use this list.

hashcat -a 0 -m 1000 <NTLMHASHES> wordlists/english.txt -r d3adhob0.rule -o cracked.txt

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