What is the John The Riper(JTR)? How to use JTR?

What is the John The Riper?

Jhon the riper is tool which open source and written with C language.It is used to break the HASH values ​​obtained in penetration tests.This tool working 15 different platform.

How to install John The Riper?

apt-get install john

Jhon the riper help command

jhon -h

jhon the riper basic usage

john [OPTIONS] [PASSWORD-FILES]

jhon the riper supported hash type

john –list=formats

You can change wordlist.You can add your own passwords because they come by default.

mousepad /usr/share/john/password.lst

john the riper md5 password crack

my md5 password =5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3

john –format=raw-md5 /root/Desktop/pass.txt

We start the breaking process with the command. After the process is finished, we give the command again by adding the -show parameter to see the clear-text state of the broken HASHs.

john –format=raw-md5 /root/Desktop/pass.txt — show