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Recursive hashing

ssdeep command for recursive hashing. Copy the command below and use it in your terminal.

ssdeep — terminal
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ ssdeep -r /directory/
Tool
ssdeep
Category
Cryptography
Purpose
Recursive hashing

🛡️ Usage Tips

  • Always ensure you have proper authorization before using ssdeep against any target
  • Replace target with the actual IP address or hostname you are testing
  • Run this command from a Kali Linux terminal or any system with ssdeep installed
  • Combine with other ssdeep commands for more comprehensive results
  • Pipe output to a file with > output.txt for later analysis

🔗 More ssdeep Commands

ssdeep file1 file2
Compare file similarity
ssdeep -l file
Long comparison mode
ssdeep -b file
Bare hash output
ssdeep -p file
Pretty matching
ssdeep -d file1 file2
Directory compare
ssdeep -m known_hashes.txt suspect
Match against known
ssdeep -k known_hashes.txt -r /dir/
Match directory
ssdeep -c file
CSV output
ssdeep -t 50 file1 file2
Threshold 50%
ssdeep -v
Verbose output
ssdeep file > hash.txt
Save hash to file
ssdeep -a file
Compute hash only

🔐 Other Cryptography Tools

OpenSSL GnuPG hashID JWT Tool
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