Hashcat v4.0 - World's Fastest and Most Advanced Password Recovery Utility - Hacking Land

hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 200 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and OSX, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.

Installation

Download the latest release and unpack it in the desired location. Please remember to use 7z x when unpacking the archive from the command line to ensure full file paths remain intact.

GPU Driver requirements:

AMD GPUs on Windows require "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition" (15.12 or later)
AMD GPUs on Linux require "AMDGPU-PRO Driver" (16.40 or later)
Intel CPUs require "OpenCL Runtime for Intel Core and Intel Xeon Processors" (16.1.1 or later)
Intel GPUs on Windows require "OpenCL Driver for Intel Iris and Intel HD Graphics"
Intel GPUs on Linux require "OpenCL 2.0 GPU Driver Package for Linux" (2.0 or later)
NVIDIA GPUs require "NVIDIA Driver" (367.x or later)

Features

World's fastest password cracker
World's first and only in-kernel rule engine
Free
Open-Source (MIT License)
Multi-OS (Linux, Windows and OSX)
Multi-Platform (CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA, etc., everything that comes with an OpenCL runtime)
Multi-Hash (Cracking multiple hashes at the same time)
Multi-Devices (Utilizing multiple devices in same system)
Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system)
Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay)
Supports interactive pause / resume
Supports sessions
Supports restore
Supports reading password candidates from file and stdin
Supports hex-salt and hex-charset
Supports automatic performance tuning
Supports automatic keyspace ordering markov-chains
Built-in benchmarking system
Integrated thermal watchdog
200+ Hash-types implemented with performance in mind
... and much more