Metasploit VS hashcat

Compare Metasploit vs hashcat and see what are their differences.

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Metasploit hashcat
117 103
32,790 19,873
1.3% 2.2%
10.0 8.8
about 17 hours ago 6 days ago
Ruby C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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Metasploit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Metasploit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-01.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project

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

Covenant - Covenant is a collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers.

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]

routersploit - Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices [Moved to: https://github.com/threat9/routersploit]

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

SQLMap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

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

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

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

Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

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