Regex - what is this and how can I use it? Be a cracking master, use regex.

[Simon 35]

What is regex (regular expression) and how it can help you with cracking?

A very useful thing for cracking! Be a cracking master, parse databases like a god!

 

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Hey, as I can see many of you are wondering what is a term called regex. I think that you heard of it then you had on your mind "sounds hard". Yes, it may sound hard, but in reality, it's easy. I am sure that you can learn the basics of regex in less than 40 minutes. Let's check

Wikipedia for more info, maybe it will help us? No, it doesn't help us at all. It makes it more complicated. The things that we know now - it's called regular expression. And that's all. Let me explain to you what is this. Regex is nothing more than a string of characters that can match something in the text. For example:

 

Dot character - . - matches any character in the text;

Dollar character - $ - matches the end of the line;

Star character - * - is able to match 0 or more times.

 

There are also some character escapes:

 

\f matches form-feed;

\r matches carriage return;

\n matches linefeed;

\t matches horizontal tab;

\v matches the vertical tab;

\0 matches NUL character;

[\b] matches backspace.

 

Of course, there are more characters that are available in the regex. A helpful thing for you can be

this selection of tables. Now you have a lookup to some regex functions/patterns.

 

But well, how you can use it in cracking? Have you ever had a database which contained more info than user/email and password. If yes, you probably were wondering how to use the useless for you pieces of information to get pure email or user:password combolist. That's the case where you can use regex. Let me give you a example:

 

You have a database that contains email, username, password, hash, IP, first name and last name and all of the things are separated (delimited) with a tab character and the break character is enter, how you can manage it to get pure user:password combolist? You have to use EmEditor to make it much easier with regex. Download the software, install it and open via it database. Now right-click on "CSV Formats"  then select "Customize CSV...".

 

 

Then click on "Add" and as delimiter set \t (tab character in regex). Then click OK.

 

 

Now click on the second "CSV Formats" that appeared on toolbox and boom, you have your database sorted into columns. Last thing that you have to do is select the columns that you want to copy then copy it. Now you can open new document, paste it and replace tab character with :. So now your database looks like this:

 

 

To replace tab character with :, click Ctrl + F then move to "Replace >>" tab. In Find field type \t, in Replace with type : and click "Replace All". All your tabs got replaced with :.

 

 

Ofc that's only a small part of regex power.

Useful regex-related website - check your patterns live.

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[alsaher788 4]

Upvoted

WTF Is This?

Is This a Software or smth?

thanks anyway

[ge9d 13]

Nice! Keep up the nice work!

[mrjakix1 2]

i see it in xslayer i dont now its good to try it

[iamp 7]

Can help alot of new crackers ! nice post!

[Merged 80]

ooo thanks

[pisolo 6]

thank you very much I want to give a controlled

[aliayub123 26]

Thanks a freaking ton will like

[Mac Miller 36]

really confused what "regex" is? is it windows regisrty

edit:still really confused

[EliteEmper0r 41]

Thanks man hopefully i can make some snipr configs now lmao!

[Zebzter 2]

What is regex (regular expression) and how it can help you with cracking?

A very useful thing for cracking! Be a cracking master, parse databases like a god!

 

 

 

Thanks for reading, don't be a leecher and make sure to leave a like.

 

 

hmm this looks intersting

[kent12 1]

thanks man

[2541066772 1]

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[swallow 0]

thank you very much

[hellodarkness 2]

What is regex (regular expression) and how it can help you with cracking?

A very useful thing for cracking! Be a cracking master, parse databases like a god!

 

 

 

Thanks for reading, don't be a leecher and make sure to leave a like.

 

 

like that bro thanks

[marylovely 1]

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[seo decompile 0]

this will have an upvote

[bassbass1017 0]

time to tart cracking

[iSroor 0]

iam little confused about the tutorial but Thanks Anyway <3

[Lol33 1]

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[deejaypein 2]

thanks for the effort bro

[masnoni 0]

Thanks for sharing dude, the more you know the better it is :P

[LordW 2]

What is regex (regular expression) and how it can help you with cracking?

A very useful thing for cracking! Be a cracking master, parse databases like a god!

 

 

 

Thanks for reading, don't be a leecher and make sure to leave a like.

 

 

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[d4nb 2]

Thanks for the info!

[ajstar786 0]

looking for this information from a long time thanks