cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment

cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from withcrux/agentHack-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,007 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A security-testing guide for finding and recovering passwords from weakly protected password hashes, which are scrambled forms of passwords. It uses Hashcat and John the Ripper in an isolated lab environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify MD5, SHA1, NTLM, or bcrypt hashes, choose wordlists, try dictionary attacks and rule-based variations, and review password policies.
Why use it?
It helps security assessors check whether password storage and policies are weak without testing against live systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to identify MD5, SHA1, NTLM, or bcrypt hashes, choose wordlists, try dictionary attacks and rule-based variations, and review password policies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/withcrux/agenthack-skills/cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add withcrux/agentHack-skills --skill cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/withcrux/agentHack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,007 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00071 $0.02007
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01004
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00201

Measured 11d ago against content hash 165ba2b40b32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- After obtaining a password hash file from an authorized penetration test target (e.g., `/etc/shadow` dump, database credential leak)

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment/SKILL.md · 215 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 215 lines · 71 tokens per session scan B 165ba2b40b32

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cracking-weak-hashes-in-lab-environment is a skill published in the GitHub repository withcrux/agentHack-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,007 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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