Used for performing offline password cracking
hashcat -a <attack-mode> -m <hash-type> \
-o <output-file> <hashes-file> <wordlist>Flags
-r: Specify combinator rules file (Rule File : /usr/share/hashcat/rules)
--force: Ignore warnings
Default attack mode : 0
When output is not specified the results are saved in a .pot file
For cracking passwords of rar/ zip files the hash has to be extracted from the file
John the Ripper utilities (zip2john/ rar2john) can extract these hashes
When using John tools the output file needs to be modified to only contain the hash type and the actual hash