Passphrase Cracking with Hashcat
Using the WPA hash mode,
we will crack our file generated by cap2 hc capx
with the JtR default wordlist.
The output shows hashcat successfully cracked our WPA hash
with the results displayed in the following colon-separated format.
The BSSID,
The client MAC address,
The ESSID,
And the passphrase.
Hashcat automatically creates a session while it is running,
which we can interrupt using q or Control c.
To restore the session, we run hashcat with session and restore options.
The session is named “hashcat” by default
but can be renamed with session followed by a name.
Unless disabled with the potfile-disable option,
a potfile is created with the cracked passphrase,
and is located in hashcat.potfile by default.
A different path may be specified using the potfile-path option.