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John The Ripper TryHackme Writeup

Vijay Kumar Gupta
6 min readSep 7, 2024

https://tryhackme.com/room/johntheripper0

Task 2: Setting up John the Ripper

Question: What is the most popular extended version of John the Ripper?

Answer: Jumbo John

Task 3: Wordlists

Question: What website was the rockyou.txt wordlist created from a breach on?

Answer: rockyou.com

Task 4: Cracking Basic Hashes

Tool we use hash-identifier. This tool is already install in kali linux

python3 hash-identifier.py

for the Practical we need to download “firsttaskhashes.zip”

So Here we unzip the file

Question: What type of hash is hash1.txt?

copy hash from hash1.txt

Use Hash-identifier tool to analyze hash format

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Vijay Kumar Gupta
Vijay Kumar Gupta

Written by Vijay Kumar Gupta

Vijay Gupta is an inspiring public speaker and social entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to bringing about positive change and empowering communities.

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