Incremental mode (aka Brute-Force attack): Tries all possible character combination 4. Wordlist mode: Tries all words in the wordlist 3. Single crack mode: Tries mangling usernames obtained from the GECOS field, and tries them as possible passwords 2. John supports 4 modes of password cracking: 1. If that would have been unsuccessful too John would have proceeded to Incremental mode, also known as Brute-Force attack in which all possible character combinations are tried. Preceding that, we see in the line starting with ‘ Proceeding with single’ that John initially started in Single cracking mode and then proceeded to Wordlist mode after unsuccessfully crack. In the screenshot above, we see in the line starting with ‘ Proceeding with wordlist’ that John successfully cracked the password in Wordlist mode using John’s default wordlist file password.lst. John found that the hash value stored in the file belonged to the password ‘secret’.
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