Password cracking has come a long way, but what about password analysis? Back in the day, Pipal was our go-to tool for basic statistics and base-word identification. In 2017, two of SynerComm’s pentesters, int128 and meatball, created Hashview. Hashview solved many of the issues of running a Hashcat password cracker in a shared pentester environment. It provided queuing, saving and loading projects, and reporting. Above all, it was the reporting that made our team longtime users of Hashview.
But as time marched on, our needs evolved, and we didn’t have a modern password analysis and reporting solution. In 2020, I created an Excel spreadsheet that performed all the key calculations of our prior tools, but it was slow and bulky. Not to mention, it’s 2025 now and the charts and tables still look like Excel 2020. Long story short, I wanted to help our pentest team perform better password analysis, and I wanted to make the process quicker, easier, and with consistent reporting.
Enter Hash Master 1000
https://github.com/shellntel/HashMaster1000
The tool was built to solve a specific problem: to help penetration testers and cybersecurity professionals perform modern, robust password and hash analysis. Whether you’re looking for detailed statistics, substring analysis, or insights into dictionary word usage, Hash Master 1000 delivers.
What Hash Master 1000 Brings to the Table
- Comprehensive Cracking Statistics: See cracked vs. uncracked accounts, password length distributions, and more.
- Substring and Dictionary Analysis: Go beyond simple statistics to identify patterns and base words used to construct passwords.
- Policy Compliance Checks: Quickly identify passwords that fail to meet your organization’s minimum requirements.
- Browser App & Reporting: Generate clean, professional reports that can be shared with clients or stakeholders.
It’s fast. It’s free. And it’s built to help penetration testers focus on what matters most: delivering actionable insights to their clients.
What Is It?
Hash Master 1000 slices and dices your password and hashes into a dozen charts and tables that help pentesters and consultants identify password weaknesses and report results. It includes statistics like the ratios of cracked to uncracked accounts, average password length, hash counts (including checking for weak LAN Manager hashes), and blank password counts.
Hash Master 1000 also includes charts and tables for:
- Password Length Distribution
- Top Reused (Cracked) Passwords
- Top Substrings (base strings used to create passwords)
- Top Dictionary Words (English words used to create passwords)
- Accounts with Reused Passwords (by NTLM hash)
- Accounts with Blank Passwords
- Policy Compliance: Min Length & Complexity
Each chart and table was designed to be copied and pasted or imported into other documents, presentations, and reports. Copy PNG (to clipboard) and Download SVG buttons make portability simple.
How Does It Work?
Hash Master 1000 utilizes Python scripts for password analysis calculations, Flask as the web server, and HTML, JavaScript and Chart.JS to wrap the configuration, analysis and reporting into a single app. Analysts using the app simply provide their project’s pwdump file and Hashcat .potfile as inputs along with optional configuration options to tweak the analysis and reporting.
What’s Next?
Coming Soon: Throughout the project, my list of ideas and features grew quicker than imagined. I set out to write a collection of Python functions to calculate password cracking statistics, but ended up with a modern reporting app. Now, I’ve started the process to enrich the analysis with account metadata and Active Directory group and privilege information. Imagine knowing right away if accounts with weak or blank passwords are enabled and have elevated privileges or whether your privileged accounts share the same password as non-privileged accounts.
- Password Age: See how stale passwords correlate with process failures
- Account Status: Flag accounts that are expired, locked, or disabled
- Privilege Levels: Identify risky accounts like Domain Administrators
Download It. Use It. Share It.
Hash Master 1000 was built for the community. It’s free, open to all, and designed to make your life easier. Download it, try it, and let us know what you think.
