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John The Ripper TryHackme Writeup
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