Crack The Hash Level 2 Tryhackme Writeup

This is a Writeup of Tryhackme room “Crack The Hash Level 2”

Room link: https://tryhackme.com/room/malstrings
Note: This room is free

Task 1: Introduction

Password cracking is part of the penetration tester job but is rarely taught on challenges platforms. In this room you will learn to how to crack hashes, identify hash types, create custom wordlists, find specific wordlists, create mutations rules, etc.

This room is a spiritual successor to Crack the Hash.

https://tryhackme.com/room/crackthehash

I recommend you to have done the room Crack the hash before attempting this one, which is harder and will use more advanced techniques.

However this room include a course about hash cracking before you have to face the cracking challenges, it may be a good idea to read the course part before doing Crack the hash if you are a new comer.

Task 2: Hash identification

Often the first thing you will need when you encounter a hash, is trying to identify which kind of hash it is.
There are a lot of hash types, some are very famous like MD5 or SHA1 but other are less and there are several hash types possible for a given character…