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Raw & unsalted hashes

How to identify and crack an SHA3-384 hash

Identify an SHA3-384 hash and crack it with ready-to-run hashcat and John the Ripper commands. Fast on a GPU.

hashcat mode -m 17500

SHA3-384 is an raw / unsalted hash type. It is fast and typically unsalted, which makes weak passwords recoverable quickly on consumer GPU hardware. This page shows how to recognise it and the exact commands to attack it.

All identification runs locally in WebAssembly. The commands below write the hash to a local file on your machine — nothing is sent to this site.

Identifying the hash

The hash identifier on the home page detects SHA3-384 entirely in your browser — your hash is never uploaded. A typical example looks like this:

ec01498288516fc926459f58e2c6ad8df9b473cb0fc08c2596da7cf0e49be4b298d88cea927ac7f539f1edf228376d25

Cracking SHA3-384 with hashcat

Save the hash to a file and run hashcat in mode -m 17500. Start with a wordlist such as rockyou.txt:

echo 'ec01498288516fc926459f58e2c6ad8df9b473cb0fc08c2596da7cf0e49be4b298d88cea927ac7f539f1edf228376d25' > hash.txt && hashcat -m 17500 hash.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt

Add a rule set to mutate dictionary words (capitalisation, leetspeak, appended digits) and dramatically widen coverage:

echo 'ec01498288516fc926459f58e2c6ad8df9b473cb0fc08c2596da7cf0e49be4b298d88cea927ac7f539f1edf228376d25' > hash.txt && hashcat -m 17500 hash.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt -r /usr/share/hashcat/rules/best64.rule