Problem :
I’m trying to brute force one of my old harddrives I no longer have the password for; (LUKS v1).
Hashcat is doing great for this, I’m just not sure how to queue multiple lists or dictionaries other that merging them all into a single list.
Ideally I would like to be able to start with the most likely lists, say, “keyboard patterns” or “common numbers” and then progress to other lists specified.
The current command is hashcat -m 14600 -a 0 -w 3 luks-header <password>.txt -o found, but I would like to specify more than .txt.
Something like: hashcat -m 14600 -a 0 -w 3 luks-header <password>.txt, <dictionary>.txt, <numbers>.txt -o found.
So that it will run those lists one after the other in the order specified. Is this possible?
I tried to Google it, but only found results for things with similar keywords even when I used “quotes”.
Solution :
You can use a simple for loop for that.
This example will loop thru all .txt files in the current working directory and pass the name to hashcat as a variable:
for file in *.txt; do hashcat -m 14600 -a 0 -w 3 luks-header "$file" -o found; done