Identify the hash type
If you want to know the type of a password’s hash you can run the following command on your machine:
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hashcat.exe -j -m hash.txt
And it will throw the type:
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Hash-mode was not specified with -m. Attempting to auto-detect hash mode.
The following mode was auto-detected as the only one matching your input hash:
400 | phpass | Generic KDF
Another resource to check hash types is on Hashcat Documentation
Dictionary Attack
Then you can execute a dictionary attack with your favorite dictionary:
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hashcat.exe -m 400 -a 0 hash.txt rockyou.txt
Examples: Acute