Word Mangling/Wordlist generator

[royce]

Yeah, what undeath said - if we're talking about typos, or misspellings that are just a single character substitution, some rules are pretty good at transposing letters. Specifically, a ruleset like this:

Code:

$ cat typo-swap.rule *01 *12 *23 *34 *45 *56 *67 *78

... would do this:

Code:

$ echo hashcats | hashcat -r typo-swap.rule --stdout ahshcats hsahcats hahscats haschats hashacts hashctas hashcast hashcats

And rules like this for character substitutions:

Code:

$ cat typo-wrong.rule saq saw sas sax saz $ echo hashcat | hashcat -r typo-wrong.rule --stdout hqshcqt hwshcwt hsshcst hxshcxt hzshczt

If it's a fast hash and you're feeling lazy, you can just throw all of the possible characters into a custom character set (-1, -2, -3, -4 syntax).

Code:

$ hashcat -m 0 -a 3 -1 'hasct' --stdout ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1 | head sattasa chatasa ashaasa tattasa hattasa shatasa cattasa aattasa thatasa hhatasa $ hashcat -m 0 -a 3 -1 'hasct' --stdout ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1 | wc -l 78125 $ hashcat -m 0 -a 3 -1 'cat' --stdout hash?1?1?1 hashata hashtat hashcat hashaca hashtta hashcca hashaat hashtca hashcta hashatt hashtac hashcac hashact hashttt hashcct hashaac hashtct hashctt hashatc hashtaa hashcaa hashacc hashttc hashccc hashaaa hashtcc hashctc

Adjust the hard-coded characters in the mask with the wildcard ones (?1) to taste.

If the rules syntax is tricky for you, and if it's a slow hash, you might be be better off scripting something that does the mangling for you, or using a different external tool. Googling for "typo generator" has some interesting hits.