Recover Password using hashcat in Mac

hashcat Package Installation on Mac

About hashcat : World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility!

Features

• World's fastest password cracker
• World's first and only in-kernel rule engine
• Free
• Open-Source (MIT License)
• Multi-OS (Linux, Windows and macOS)
• Multi-Platform (CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA, etc., everything that comes with an OpenCL runtime)
• Multi-Hash (Cracking multiple hashes at the same time)
• Multi-Devices (Utilizing multiple devices in same system)
• Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system)
• Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay)
• Supports interactive pause / resume
• Supports sessions
• Supports restore
• Supports reading password candidates from file and stdin
• Supports hex-salt and hex-charset
• Supports automatic performance tuning
• Supports automatic keyspace ordering markov-chains
• Built-in benchmarking system
• Integrated thermal watchdog
• 200+ Hash-types implemented with performance in mind
• ... and much more

More Information: https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

Steps:

1. Launch Terminal by pressing command+space, type terminal and hit Enter key.


2. Run
   
   

   ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null



3. Install
   
   

   brew install hashcat

Done!