Password Cracking Wordlists and Tools for Brute Forcing

I quite often get people asking me where to get password cracking Wordlists, after all brute forcing and password cracking often relies on the quality of your word list.

Do note there are also various tools to generate wordlists for brute forcing based on information gathered such as documents and web pages (such as Wyd – password profiling tool) These are useful resources that can add unique words that you might not have if your generic lists.

I quite often get people asking me where to get password cracking Wordlists, after all brute forcing and password cracking often relies on the quality of your word list.

Do note there are also various tools to generate wordlists for brute forcing based on information gathered such as documents and web pages (such as Wyd – password profiling tool) These are useful resources that can add unique words that you might not have if your generic lists.

Also add all the company related words you can and if possible use industry specific word lists (chemical names for a lab, medical terms for a hospital etc).

And always brute force in the native language.

You can find a simple wordlist generator in PERL here.

Although old, one of the most complete wordlist sets is here (easily downloadable by FTP too):

Oxford Uni Wordlists

There’s a good set of lists here including many european languages and topic specific lists:

The Argon Wordlists

Here we have 50,000 words, common login/passwords and African words (this used to be a great resource):

Totse Word Lists

There’s a good French word list here with and without accents, also has some other languages including names:

Wordlists for bruteforce crackers

One of the most famous lists is still from Openwall (the home of John the Ripper) and now costs money for the full version:

Openwall Wordlists Collection

Some good lists here organized by topic:

Outpost9 Word lists

Packetstorm has some good topic based lists including sciences, religion, music, movies and common lists.

Packetstorm word lists

Enjoy! And as always if you have any good resources or tools to add – do mention them in the comments.