# Cracking Hashes

I had found the hash of the Frank Castle user using Responder.

There are two ways in which we can crack this hash. We can use the Kali machine or use the Windows base machine.

Using the host OS is faster as it uses GPU to crack the hash.

In the following section, I have used my host machine to crack. I have downloaded the hashcat binary from website and stored the hash into a text file in the same directory.

Also I have added the rockyou.txt file into the same directory.

I then used the following command to crack the hash:&#x20;

```
hashcat.exe -m 5600 hashes.txt rockyou.txt -O
```

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