What is Hash Cracker? Hash Cracker is a custom Python-based security tool designed to crack cryptographic hashes using two popular methods:

🎯Purpose:---

• Hash Cracker helps security professionals, ethical hackers, and penetration testers to:
• Recover lost passwords (ethical use only)
• Test the strength of password hashing implementations
• Demonstrate the risk of weak or guessable passwords
• Participate in CTF (Capture The Flag) or cybersecurity competitions

🧬 How It Works

Hash Cracker works by comparing a user-provided hash to the hashes of potential plaintext passwords. If a match is found, it reveals the original password. It supports:

✅ Two Attack Modes

1. Dictionary Attack (Wordlist Mode):
   • Takes a list of known or likely passwords.
   • Hashes each one.
   • Compares it against the target hash.
   • Efficient if the password is common or reused.
2. Brute Force Attack:
   • Tries every possible combination of characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, symbols) within a user-specified length range.
   • Much slower but guaranteed to find the password if it exists within the defined character space.

🔐 Supported Hash Types

Hash Cracker supports all major types available in Python’s hashlib:

• md5
• sha1
• sha224
• sha256
• sha384
• sha512
• sha3_224, sha3_256, sha3_384, sha3_512

🔍 Overview

Hash Cracker is a multi-threaded password hash cracking utility written in Python. It supports both dictionary and brute-force attacks for common hash algorithms including MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and more.

This tool is perfect for security researchers, penetration testers, and CTF players looking to verify hash weaknesses.

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🎯 Features

• 🔓 Supports major hashing algorithms (md5, sha1, sha256, sha512, etc.)
• ⚔️ Two cracking modes:
  • Dictionary attack using wordlists
  • Brute-force with custom charset and length range
• 🧠 Multi-threaded execution using ThreadPoolExecutor
• 📈 Real-time progress display with tqdm
• 🎨 Styled terminal output using termcolor
• 🛠️ Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS)

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⚙️ Requirements

Install the required Python modules with:

pip install tqdm termcolor

Usage:

python hash_cracker.py

Input Prompts: Hash to crack: Paste your hash string Crack mode: Choose (1) Wordlist or (2) Brute Force Hash type: Choose from supported types Wordlist path or brute-force charset/lengths depending on mode

Brute Force Attack Demo: