Single Wordlist with Rules

Rules automatically modify words in the wordlist, to greatly increase your guess word base. Think of them as a programming script to modify the words in wordlists. They can add or remove characters, modify cases, double the words, or numerous other useful things. The rules files are found in the “rule” subdirectory. If you look at each rule file you can see the “programming language” used to modify each word.

The “Best64” rule is one of the most popular and is quick to run:

➢      hashcat -m 0 [Uncracked].txt wordlist.txt -o [Cracked.txt] -r rules/best64.rule

You can toggle the case of every character in the wordlist with the “toggles” rules:

➢      hashcat -m 0 [Uncracked.txt] wordlist1 -o [Cracked.txt] -r rules/toggles.rule -O

This creates words like:

cat, Cat, cAt, caT, dog, Dog, dOg, doG

You can also use two rule files at a time if they are small enough. Though...