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Download A Collection of Passwords &

Wordlists for Kali Linux (2021)

Today you'll be able to download a collection of passwords and wordlist dictionaries

for cracking in Kali Linux.

A wordlist or a password dictionary is a collection of passwords stored in plain text.

It's basically a text !le with a bunch of passwords in it.

Most of the wordlists you can download online including the ones I share with you
here are a collection of uncommon and common passwords that were once used (and
probably still is) by real people.

You can create your own wordlist or use existing ones that's been compiled by others.
Usually wordlists are derived from data breaches like when a company gets hacked.
The data stolen is then sold on the dark web or leaked on certain websites such as
Pastebin.

You can download the full collection of wordlists on Github. Note, I sorted and
separated them in alphabetical order in order to meet Github's upload size
requirements.

For more information on how to download and decompress the !les, please continue
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Download: https://github.com/kennyn510/wpa2-wordlists

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Where did you get the passwords from?

I dug them up using advanced Google search operators. The majority I found from
websites that share leaked passwords.

How do I use this?

A wordlist is used to perform dictionary attacks. For example, you can use it to crack
WiFi WPA2 using aircrack-ng:

aircrack-ng handshake.cap -w /path/to/wordlist.txt

I've personally tried it and was able to crack 3/10 wi! networks near me. Just bare in
mind that using password cracking tools takes a lot of time, especially if done on a
computer without a powerful GPU.

Also, this might be obvious to most, but I had a few people email me telling me none
of the wordlists worked for them...so I'm about to say it
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 THIS ONLY WORKS IF THE PASSWORD IS INCLUDED IN THE WORDLIST.

If they use a strong password like this one:

6VlgB@.|dI11@o5JG3LH!8ZBF3gH*N2$0E$$_

Then you're pretty much out of luck. You could do a brute force attack in such cases
but even that could take millions of years depending on how much computer
resources you have.

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How To Download Wordlists

1. Download wordlists using git clone

git clone https://github.com/kennyn510/wpa2-wordlists.git

2. Choose a wordlist you want to use

cd wpa2-wordlists/Wordlists/Crackdown2016

3. Decompress (if applicable)

gunzip *.gz

4. Merge all text !les into one

cat *.txt >> full.txt

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Clean Up Wordlists Using Bash One-Liners

The following bash one-liners are useful ​commands for manipulating wordlists (or any
text !le).

For instance, if you need to remove all blank lines from a !le, a one-liner will do the
trick. Similarly, if you need to remove duplicate passwords (or text), you can do that
too.

If you have multiple wordlists, you can also combine them into one large !le.

Remove duplicates

awk '!(count[$0]++)' old.txt > new.txt

Sort wordlist by length

awk '{print length, $0}' old.txt | sort -n | cut -d " " -f2- > new.txt

Sort by alphabetical order

sort old.txt | uniq > new.txt

Merge multiple text !les into one

cat file1.txt file2.txt > combined.txt

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 Remove all blank lines

egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$" old.txt > new.txt

Did you !nd this helpful? Please let me know.

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 Louie
September 4, 2017 at 9:44 pm

Thanks for putting this together. I was using the cat command for removing the duplicates ,
and the merging command is much easier. Now my question for you is… how would i
remove character symbols from the example below?

`~!@#$%^
`-=`-=`-=
`;`;`;`;
`??????^

I notice a lot of !les have these kind of symbols and I want to remove them.

thanks again.

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Jodee Ellsworth
December 4, 2018 at 10:39 am

Dead indited articles, regards for information .

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David Bankson
September 6, 2017 at 6:21 pm

I’ve had one problem after another since getting Kali…now I can’t get your instructions to
work after the download completes. I put in “gunzip *.gz”, but there are no .gz !les in half of
the folders! How do I use the Ultimate2016 if there is no .gz !le associated with it??
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Kenneth

September 6, 2017 at 6:38 pm

If there’s no “.gz” then you don’t need to decompress. Just jump to the next step “cat *.txt
>> full.txt”

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Bankir
October 9, 2017 at 11:08 pm

I have done everything like you sad, but when i put command cat *.txt >> full.txt terminal
shows me cat: full.txt: input !le is output !le What am id doing wrong ?

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Kenneth

October 9, 2017 at 11:23 pm

Try using only one “>” instead of 2.

So like this:

cat *.txt > full.txt

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 Chad
January 24, 2018 at 2:43 am

sounds like the command has already executed hence it would be the same !le thus already
merged to one e.g. 26x = 1, 1 = 1

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Happy
February 7, 2018 at 6:31 pm

Brother i need world list 2018 latest. What is the price to purchase plz reply urgently.

Reply

Trunker
May 2, 2018 at 3:24 am

can i delete the full.text if i have get the new.text

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Lou
June 3, 2018 at 9:19 pm

Has there been any 2018 word list you have come across yet or built yet? Just trying to keep
my word list up to date.

Thanks,
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raja
November 25, 2018 at 9:09 am

sir he use the strong password example 6VlgB@.|dI11@o5JG3LH!8ZBF3gH*N2$0E$$_ so

help me what i do

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A***
December 7, 2018 at 1:54 pm

Like kenneth said above, complex passwords generally harder to crack as word lists won’t
contain them. You can try a bruteforce attack if you have some parts of the password,
otherwise your shit outta luck.

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 APT70
October 15, 2019 at 12:29 pm

He isn’t shit out of luck. He will just have to be patient. Using a bruteforce will allow
him to use any character and any case but it can take over 3000 years to complete the
process.

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Danony
April 3, 2020 at 1:16 pm

U can’t use dictionary or brute force attack in such case …try for hash decrepiter

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keith
February 11, 2019 at 12:49 pm

nice tut i now have a 4gig.txt !le of passwords thanks to you

Reply

nikston
March 5, 2020 at 1:58 am

Could you build a script with slavic / balkan words please?

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 muhamad mamasl

January 19, 2021 at 5:08 am

Thanks for putting this together. I was using the cat command for removing the duplicates ,
and the merging command is much easier. Now my question for you is… how would i
remove character symbols from the example below?

`~!@#$%^
`-=`-=`-=
`;`;`;`;
`??????^

I notice a lot of !les have these kind of symbols and I want to remove them.

thanks again.

Reply

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