hashcat command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
hashcat: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: hashcat: command not found
Solutions to hashcat: command not found
How To Fix hashcat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu hashcat is provided by hashcat package.
hashcat is:
Hashcat supports five unique modes of attack for over 300 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.
Examples of hashcat supported hashing algorithms are: MD5, HMAC-MD5, SHA1, HMAC-SHA1, MySQL323, MySQL4.1/MySQL5, phpass, MD5(Wordpress), MD5(phpBB3), MD5(Joomla), md5crypt, MD5(Unix), FreeBSD MD5, Cisco-IOS, MD4, NTLM, Domain Cached Credentials (DCC), MS Cache, SHA256, HMAC-SHA256, md5apr1, MD5(APR), Apache MD5, SHA512, HMAC-SHA512, Cisco-PIX, Cisco-ASA, WPA/WPA2, Double MD5, bcrypt, Blowfish(OpenBSD), MD5(Sun), Double SHA1, SHA-3(Keccak),Half MD5, Password Safe SHA-256, IKE-PSK MD5, IKE-PSK SHA1, NetNTLMv1-VANILLA/NetNTLMv1-ESS, NetNTLMv2, Cisco-IOS SHA256, Android PIN, AIX {smd5}, AIX {ssha256}, AIX {ssha512}, AIX {ssha1}, GOST, GOST R 34, Fortigate (FortiOS), OS X v10.8+, GRUB 2, IPMI2, RAKP, HMAC-SHA1, sha256crypt, SHA256(Unix), Drupal7, WBB3, scrypt, Cisco $8$, Cisco $9$, Radmin2, Django (PBKDF2-SHA256), Cram MD5, SAP, iSSHA-1, PrestaShop, PostgreSQL, Challenge-Response Authentication (MD5), MySQL Challenge-Response, Authentication (SHA1), SIP digest authentication (MD5), Plaintext, Joomla < 2.5.18, PostgreSQL, osCommerce, xt:Commerce, Skype, nsldap, Netscape, LDAP, nsldaps, SSHA-1(Base64), Oracle S: Type (Oracle 11+), SMF > v1.1, OS X v10.4, v10.5, v10.6, EPi, Django (SHA-1), MSSQL(2000), MSSQL(2005), PeopleSoft, EPiServer 6.x < v4, hMailServer, SSHA-512(Base64), LDAP {SSHA512}, OS X v10.7, MSSQL(2012 & 2014), vBulletin < v3.8.5, PHPS, vBulletin > v3.8.5, IPB2+, MyBB1.2+, Mediawiki B type, WebEdition CMS, Redmine.
Hashcat offers multiple attack modes for obtaining effective and complex coverage over a hash’s keyspace. These modes are:
- Brute-Force attack
- Combinator attack
- Dictionary attack
- Fingerprint attack
- Hybrid attack
- Mask attack
- Permutation attack
- Rule-based attack
- Table-Lookup attack
- Toggle-Case attack
- PRINCE attack
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install hashcat
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install hashcat.
sudo apt -y install hashcat
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install hashcat
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix hashcat command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.