John the Ripper Help Tricks

Find Hash Format Modules

Find supported hash types

# Field 1 is the Format label
# Field 7 is the Algorithm name
john --list=format-details --format=all | cut -f 1,7 | grep -i <hash_type>

Show information about the netntlmv2 format

john --list=format-all-details --format=netntlmv2

Example ciphertext                   USER1::Domain:1122334455667788:5E4AB1BF243DCA304A00ADEF78DC38DF:0101000000000000BB50305495AACA01338BC7B090A62856000000000200120057004F0052004B00470052004F00550050000000000000000000

Example ciphertext shows expected hash format