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cat ~/snippets/*.md

command snippets

// reusable, tested command templates — recon, web exploitation, privesc, pivoting, forensics. Copy, swap the <placeholders>, go.

$ grep -ri
all binary exploitation (2) cryptography (2) python (2) red team (4) web-exploitation (8) blue-team (1) forensics (1) foundation (1) privilege escalation (1)
// tool any checksec (1) curl (2) feroxbuster (1) ffuf (1) gobuster (1) hashcat (1) nc (1) nmap (1) pwntools (1) ssh (1)
2026-08-06 bash hashcat cryptography

Hashcat — Wordlist & Mask Attacks

Hashcat essentials: pick the hash mode with -m, run a dictionary attack, or fall back to a mask brute-force.

bash 
# -m = hash mode: 0=MD5, 100=SHA1, 1000=NTLM, 1800=sha512crypt (see -h for the list)
# straight dictionary attack (-a 0)
hashcat -m 0 -a 0 hash.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt

# mask / brute-force (-a 3): 8 chars, lowercase letters + 2 digits
hashcat -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?l?l?l?l?l?l?d?d

used in: Cheatsheet: tool overview