1. Crack Htpasswd John The Ripper Linux Command
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The simplest way is to let John use its default order of cracking modes: john mypasswd This will try 'single crack' mode first, then use a wordlist with rules, and finally go for 'incremental' mode. John Package Description. John the Ripper is designed to be both feature-rich and fast. It combines several cracking modes in one program and is fully configurable for your particular needs (you can even define a custom cracking mode using the built-in compiler supporting a subset of C).

John the Ripper is a free, most popular and open-source password cracking tool developed by Openwall. It was first developed for Unix operating system and now runs many operating systems including Unix, macOS, Windows, DOS, Linux, and OpenVMS. Its main purpose is to detact weak Passwords.

John the Ripper uses several cracking modes that crack hashed password. You can also use custom cracking mode using in-built compiler. John the Ripper uses dictionary attack and brute force attacks to crack the password.

In this article we will install John the Ripper software and use some useful commands to crack password.

Prerequisite

We assume you have already knows about Linux system and about Terminal and command line. We akso assume you have some basic knowledge about cracking, encryption and decryption of password.

Installation

There are many ways to install JohnTheRipper. Here we will use some of the easy ways to install. The easiest way to install JohnTheRipper is directly from command line. For that open Terminal by pressing shortcut CTRL+ALT+T and run the bellow command.

Now type john in Terminal and you will see bellow message.

Htpasswd

Run the test mode

Or you can also download from Github and build. First let's build John the Ripper. Run the following command one bye one. First install required tools for the installation.

Also install recommended software.

Change working dirctory to ~/src folder. Attack on titan episode 1 dub.

Download latest version of JohnTheRipper from GitHub.

Go to project dirctory.

And build from code.

Test the installed build.

Crack Ubuntu Password

Linux saves its password in /etc/shadow file. So run bellow command to get User password. This will take time depends on your system configuration and password strength.

If it successfully cracks password, then it will return with following response.

hackthestuff@MyPC:~/src/john/src$ sudo john /etc/shadow
Created directory: /root/.john
Loaded 1 password hash (crypt, generic crypt(3) [?/64])
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
123456 (hackthestuff)
1g 0:00:00:22 100% 2/3 0.04476g/s 135.6p/s 135.6c/s 135.6C/s 123456.pepper
Use the '--show' option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably
Session completed

Crack hashed password

One use of John The Ripper is to decrypt the hashed password. For the simplicity, we used simple password. First create password.txt file and put user and hashed password in user:password format. And run the command:

If password is successfully cracked, then it will get bellow response:

Loaded 1 password hash (bcrypt [Blowfish 32/64 X2])
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
123456 (hackthestuff)
1g 0:00:00:54 100% 2/3 0.01847g/s 15.59p/s 15.59c/s 15.59C/s 123456.12345
Use the '--show' option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably
Session completed

You can also choose specific encryption method with --format option:

Or use specific wordlist file with --wordlist option:

Pass --show argument to get cracked password.

The password is also saved to ~/.john/john.pot file.

Crack password protected zip/rar file

The other example we use is to crack password protected zip/rar file. There is 2 executable file at location john/run/zip2john and john/run/rar2john in John the Ripper programme. To crack the password protected zip file, execute zip2john file with 2 argument as bellow:

The first ./zip-file.zip is the location of the password protected zip file and ./saved-file.txt is the file where password will be saved. Similarly for rar file, use ./rar2john command to crack password for rar file.

After getting password at saved-file.txt file, crack hashed password with bellow command.

And you will get cracked password.

Conclusion

In the last, I will only tell that this is just basic example of cracking password. There are many ways to crack password using many software. Try to search more ways and more software searching from internet. Also comment bellow if you have any query or getting problems related to the article. Have a fun.

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I just spent at least 15 minutes trying to figure out why every single post on the Internet tells me to place MD5 hash in a file and call John like this

Crack Htpasswd John The Ripper Linux Command

john --format=raw-md5 --wordlist=/usr/share/dict/words md5.txt
and yet, it constantly gives me an error message:
No password hashes loaded (see FAQ)
The content of md5.txt was:
20E11C279CE49BCC51EDC8041B8FAAAA
I even tried prepending dummy user before this hash, like this:
dummyuser: 20E11C279CE49BCC51EDC8041B8FAAAA
but without any luck.
And of course I have extended version of John the Ripper that support raw-md5 format.

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It turned out that John doesn't support capital letters in hash value!

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They have to be written in small letters like this:
20e11c279ce49bcc51edc8041b8fbbb6

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after that change, everything worked like a charm.

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What a stupid error!?