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First, select the dictionary (wordlist) file. You can also select Smart mutations or Try all possible upper/lower case combinations. For example, let's assume that the next word in the wordlist is "PASSword". With the second option enabled, the program will try all possible case combinations:
password
passworD
passwoRd
passwoRD
passwOrd
…
PASSWORd
PASSWORD
However, checking all of these combinations takes a lot of time: in the example above, APDFPR will check 2^8 words (i.e. 256) instead of one. With smart mutations, you can eliminate a number of combinations that are rarely encountered; as a result, only the following words will be checked:
PASSword |
(as is) |
passWORD |
(reversed) |
password |
(all lower case) |
PASSWORD |
(all upper case) |
Password |
(first uppercase, rest lowercase) |
pASSWORD |
(first lower case, rest uppercase) |
PaSSWoRD |
(elite: vowels in lc, others in uc) |
pAsswOrd |
(noelite) |
PaSsWoRd |
(alt/1) |
pAsSwOrD |
(alt/2) |
This makes only 10 combinations per word.
The Start line # option allows starting the attack from a given line in the dictionary; if you interrupt the attack, the current line number will be written and saved to the project file.
Several dictionaries are included with APDFPR: english.dic (about 240,000 words), German and Russian.