Wordlist Wrap-up

In this chapter we covered wordlists, how to find them, or how to create your own. Wordlists are a major part of password cracking so it is good to master using them. Most modern passwords that you will run into are normally a combination of a name, numbers and symbol(s). I heavily use the Ignis lists when cracking passwords. I use the Hashcat Combinator tool to combine the smaller Ignis lists. The other wordlists I use extensively are the Facebook First and Last name lists. These are wordlists of usernames from a Facebook dump. Both of these are rather large for using the Combinator tool with, but combining them with the smaller Ignis lists or with a numbers lists is also highly effective.

Before we move on to using our wordlists with cracking tools to crack hashes, it’s important to understand what a hash is and what different types of hashes exist. We will cover this in the next chapter!