CUPP(1)

✨ CUPP — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, you found cupp(1) — yes that's section 1 of the manual, we love a classic. CUPP stands for Common User Passwords Profiler and it's literally the moment. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

cupp — generate dictionaries for attacks from personal data. that's the whole vibe. wordlists, but make them personal.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

 cupp [options]

that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic, honestly.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like. CUPP (Common User Passwords Profiler) is a tool to generate a wordlist from a common user profiler. no cap. 🎀

here's the tea: the most common form of authentication is the combination of a username and a password or passphrase. if both match values stored within a locally stored table, the user is authenticated for a connection. periodt. and password strength is a measure of the difficulty involved in guessing or breaking the password through cryptographic techniques or library-based automated testing of alternate values. iykyk.

a weak password can also be one that's easily guessed by someone profiling the user, like:

• a birthday 🎂
• a nickname
• an address
• the name of a pet or relative
• or a common word such as God, love, money or password

and the way that social engineering just hands you info to use with CUPP? chef's kiss. this way the tool can create a very effective dictionary for brute force attacks or dictionary attacks. not me being obsessed with how efficient that is 😭

that is why CUPP has born, and it can be used in situations like legal penetration tests or forensic crime investigations. legal ones though. be normal. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — this menu. the little help bestie. 🙈
• -i — Interactive questions for user password profiling. it literally just asks you stuff about your target, it's giving gossip session 💬
• -w — Use this option to profile existing dictionary, or WyD.pl output to make some pwnsauce :) yes pwnsauce. that's the technical term. 💀
• -l — Download huge wordlists from repository. the wordlists are HUGE. massive. 🌈
• -a — Parse default usernames and passwords directly from Alecto DB. Project Alecto uses purified databases of Phenoelit and CIRT which where merged and enhanced. (yes we're keeping "where", it's canon, don't @ me)
• -v — Version of the program. quick vibe check on which CUPP you're running 👑

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Create wordlist in interactive mode:

 $ cupp -i

Increases the wordlist file, for example the wordlist password.lst:

 $ cupp -w password.lst

Download huge wordlist from FUNET repository:

 $ cupp -l

🧚 CONFIGURATION FILE 🧚

CUPP has configuration file at /etc/cupp.cfg with instructions. yes it has instructions inside it, it's self-documenting, main character energy fr fr 📖✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Marcio de Souza Oliveira <m.desouza20@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). slay, thank you for your service 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was the CUPP manual, section 1, dated 28 September 2016 — go forth and profile responsibly 💖✨