Password Cracking Challenge 2 - Best64

Prompt

A database was discovered with potentially crackable passwords. The rockyou wordlist has been effective at cracking other passwords from the DB, but these might need a little extra help. Can you break them?

Answers

Q1 (15 pts) - caf973c16410b87b3a996405f421ec14
chocolat

Q2 (15 pts) - 4659b6249866c36f647fd2071bece092
Manchas5

Q3 (15 pts) - 603142b15f4dfaa1143bc47b24e0af54
rosal1nda

Steps I Took

Started by putting hashes into a file and running against rockyou with hashcat it recovered one password

I checked the meaning of Best64 because the challenge title often hints at the intended method. That showed me it was a hashcat rule, so I needed to install it.

I copied the rule file from here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CarlosLannister/OwadeReborn/refs/heads/master/owade/fileAnalyze/hashcatLib/best64.rule%7E Then I created the rule locally.

That cracked the hashes.

These looked like relatively simple passwords, so I checked whether they were already known in CrackStation. They were already in the crackstation database You really do not need to do anything for this challenge other than go to the website and put the hashes in