Introduction

One of the non-trivial tasks when dealing with bulky wordlists like rockyou.txt is that tools either can not handle them, or the ones which can, do not usually have a progress bar to keep track of how far the current wordlist has been exhausted.

In this post I’ll be providing a quick copy-paste one-liners and explaining the methodology on how to implement an improvised progress tracker with tools like hydra, wfuzz and patator. In my example I will be using patator as it has no limitation on resources and I like to use it when I need to go > 100 threads (for refernce hydra supports up to 64).