hashcat VS dnscat2

Compare hashcat vs dnscat2 and see what are their differences.

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hashcat dnscat2
103 5
19,873 3,253
2.2% -
8.8 0.0
5 days ago about 1 month ago
C PHP
- BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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hashcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of hashcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.

dnscat2

Posts with mentions or reviews of dnscat2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hashcat and dnscat2 you can also consider the following projects:

john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs

iodine - Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

JohnTheRipper - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs [Moved to: https://github.com/openwall/john]

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

bitcracker - BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker

RsaCtfTool - RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data

pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library

Pyrit - The famous WPA precomputed cracker, Migrated from Google.

bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.

hcxtools - A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.

CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis