Hashcat Tips

Important tips about hashcat

hashcat is used by airgeddon to perform various attacks against captured files, leveraging the GPU when available for faster performance. If no compatible GPU is found, it will fall back to using the CPU. In order to execute it, you'll need to install an OpenCL runtime compatible with your hardware.

If your hashcat version is 3.40 or higher, you'll need in addition the package called hashcat-utils. airgeddon will do the required check before using it.

If you are having problems with your OpenCL drivers, you can use the old legacy hashcat v2.0. It is available at the official page and also precompiled for amd64 in this repository (just copy and execute the binary directly): https://github.com/v1s1t0r1sh3r3/hashcat2.0

⚠️ Note: This is a last resort option and not recommended for regular use. It's strongly advised to run hashcat with proper GPU support for optimal performance. If GPU is not available, using the CPU with a more modern version of hashcat and compatible hardware is still a better alternative than falling back to this legacy version.

More info at Hashcat official's page.