DaveGrohl
DaveGrohl is a brute-force password cracker for macOS. It was originally created in 2010 as a password hash extractor but has since evolved into a standalone or distributed password cracker. It supports all of the standard Mac OS X user password hashes (MD4, SHA-512 and PBKDF2)[1][2][3] used since OS X Lion and also can extract them formatted for other popular password crackers like John the Ripper.[4] The latest stable release is designed specifically for Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion.
Developer(s) | davegrohl.org |
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Stable release | 2.1
/ November 30, 2012 |
Repository | ![]() |
Operating system | Mac OS X |
Type | password cracking |
License | GNU GPL 2.0 |
Website | https://www.davegrohl.org/ |
Attack Methods
DaveGrohl supports both dictionary and incremental attacks. A dictionary attack will scan through a number of pre-defined wordlists while an incremental attack will count through a character set until it finds the password. When in distributed mode, it uses Bonjour to find all the server nodes on the local network and therefore requires no configuration.
References
- Dunstan, Patrick (2011-09-18). "Cracking OS X Lion Passwords". Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- Lee, Graham (2012-07-05). "Password checking with CommonCrypto". Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- Browning, Jeff (2012-10-24). "Crack OS X Mountain Lion Passwords". Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- Peslyak, Alexander (2011-09-20). "Mac OS X 10.7 Lion password hashes (salted SHA-512)". Retrieved 2018-04-10.