# hashcat/hashcat-utils

Small utilities that are useful in advanced password cracking

Repository: https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat-utils
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hashcat-utils
Language: C
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-11-08T12:58:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 51, release rhythm 15, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3939, "days_push": 298, "days_rel": 354, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1609, forks 417 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:10.793639+00:00)

## What it is
A collection of small standalone C utilities that assist with advanced password cracking tasks, complementing the hashcat tool. Each utility performs a single function and works via STDIN/STDOUT so they can be chained together in pipelines.

## Use cases
- convert and prepare wordlists for hashcat attacks
- split, merge, or filter large password candidate files
- extract hashes from files for cracking
- chain hash manipulation tools in shell pipelines
- generate rule files or masks for password cracking
- preprocess captured hashes before loading into hashcat

## When to choose
- you use hashcat and need auxiliary tools for hash or wordlist manipulation
- you want small, fast, single-purpose binaries scriptable via pipes
- you need cross-platform (Linux/Windows) password cracking utilities

## When to avoid
- you need a full password cracking tool rather than helper utilities
- you want a GUI or interactive workflow
- you need utilities unrelated to password cracking or hash handling

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: security, developer-tools, cli
- domain: security, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: password-cracking, hashcat, hash-manipulation, stdin-stdout-pipelines, c, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- hashcat/hashcat-utils (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:10.793639+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:51:16.852221+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat-utils (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:10.793639+00:00, sha 73ed655bfd85)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.