hashcat VS masscan

Compare hashcat vs masscan and see what are their differences.

hashcat

World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility (by hashcat)

masscan

TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes. (by robertdavidgraham)
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hashcat masscan
103 64
19,829 22,600
1.9% -
9.1 7.8
2 days ago about 1 month ago
C C
- GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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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.

masscan

Posts with mentions or reviews of masscan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hashcat and masscan 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

RustScan - 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

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]

zmap - ZMap is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.

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

amass - In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

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

nuclei - Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL.

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

zgrab2-configurations - A repository for possible zgrab2 configurations

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

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.