Category: FAQs / Passware dictionaries


Passware offers advanced password lists and dictionaries for its Dictionary attack.


There are several default dictionaries available for Passware Kit in the following languages:

Arabic
Bulgarian
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Irish
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish

Also, you can download the ready dictionary below and add it as a Custom Dictionary in the Dictionary attack settings. For more information on adding a custom dictionary, please check this article:


How to create a custom dictionary


A free Passware dictionary and attack settings are now available for download for our customers.
The combination of this free dictionary and attack settings produces approximately 4.5 billion possible passwords and is 2.6 times more efficient than the default built-in dictionary (tested on a leaked passwords list with over 6,000,000 entries).


Download Passware 2017 Dictionary
Download Passware 2017 Attack Settings 


Some additional dictionaries and wordlists on other languages are available here: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/dict


All Passware Kit Business and Passware Kit Forensic SMS subscribers have access to Passware proprietary passwords dictionaries, which are updated on a regular basis. The latest leaked passwords dictionary contains over 3.2 billion passwords and is available for download (8.4 GB) in Passware Account, on the “Free Dictionaries” tab.


To apply this dictionary in Passware Kit, extract the downloaded archive into a folder and specify the location of this folder in Passware Kit at “Tools | Dictionary Manager | Add Dictionary | Add Passware Dictionary (Folder)...”. It will be automatically added to the list of dictionaries.


Also, Passware provides Passware Kit Forensic customers with the list of passwords found by Passware Kit users worldwide, offering it as an advanced dictionary. This is an opt-in service named Password Exchange.