Building a 30,000$ password cracking rig in the cloud for pennies.

If you work or are interested in Offensive Security, chances are you have already tried to crack a hash and retrieve the original password. Whether you are trying to pivot laterally in a network or gain an initial foothold by leveraging a leaked hash, cracking hashes is very common part of security testing during pentests or other offensive security assessments.

However passwords cracking is an expensive process that is very resource intensive. Building a custom cracking rig to get faster results is not an option for…