Brute Force BIP39 Passphrase Recovery. (25th Word, Hidden Wallet) Trezor, Keepkey, Ledger

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This guide is a offers a few examples of ways that you can use BTCRecover to recover a BIP39 passphrase using Brute Force methods if you have totally forgotten it. (Ledger wallets call this a hidden wallet, 25th word, etc) This will work with a Trezor, Ledger Nano or Keepkey. It can be an easy mistake to make. (Ledger Live will give the error message "wrong device or passphrase")

This can be helpful if you know your 24 word recovery seed is right, but you can't seem to find your crypto, or all the addresses you see are incorrect.

Get the dictionary files and notes for this video: https://github.com/3rdIteration/BIP39...
Get the fork of BTCRecover here:
https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcre...
Previous video with guide for running BTCRecover in Ubuntu 18.04 air gapped, live environment: (Here:    • Recovering from an Error in 24 (or 12...  )
Linode: https://www.linode.com/?r=fb436033120...
Skull Security Password Lists: https://wiki.skullsecurity.org/Passwords
Documentation: https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/...
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24 Word Phrase (Same Phrase for all examples)
Correct:
element entire sniff tired miracle solve shadow scatter hello never tank side sight isolate sister uniform advice pen praise soap lizard festival connect baby

Example 1: 1st Address, Short Password
Passphrase: coin
Address we are looking for:
0xEE64187AAb5204b148F25F61202EAc2BeC312FE9

python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist tokens-BF-double.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --max-tokens 4

found via brute-force in 58 seconds

Example 2: 1st Address, Short Password with capitals
Passphrase: coiN
Address we are looking for:
0x53c7A00B704F33704fa6d3d5229d9c0EEd4068bC
python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist tokens-BF-double.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --max-tokens 4 --typos-case --typos 1

found via brute-force in 5min, 26s…

Example 3: 1st Address, Short Password with capitals
Passphrase: Smith (eg: super common last name)
Address we are looking for:
0xDdDDc2D87eFbf6146bd020cf37c328CF68319D79
python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist tokens-BF-double.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --max-tokens 5 --typos-case --typos 1

found via english.txt in 32 minutes…
found via rockyou.txt in 3 minutes…
found via brute-force in 5 hours…

Example 4: 1st Address, Short Password, 2 capitals
Passphrase: YouTube
Address we are looking for: 0x8234C21f7A870168dE09DEe70506d6bc0E37cAFf

python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --passwordlist rockyou.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --typos-case --typos 2
found via rockyou.txt in 2 minutes…

Example 5: 1st Address, Long Password, all lower case (Thanks xkcd)
Passphrase: correcthorsebatterystaple
Address we are looking for: 0x2A457b6F2595B8B4Fe2938d03C657Ad25f2951C7

python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist english.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --max-tokens 4

Out of memory… ☹ (Using a 3mb file as a tokenlist doesn’t work)

Example 8: 1st Address, Longish Password, all lower case (two tokens)
Passphrase: correctquestion
Address we are looking for: 0x9fB02596A7e25c23414bb2C1E2CCdA504b7bb496

python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist 1-1000.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --max-tokens 2

Found in 5 minutes using 1-1000.txt

Example 9: 1st Address, Longish Password, all lower case (three tokens)
Passphrase: internationalaccessoriesuniversity
Address we are looking for:
0x944580c833ca9656978fE59981fdafA08D25572b

python btcrecover.py --no-dupchecks --tokenlist google-500-english.txt --addr-limit 1 --bip32-path "m/44'/60'/0'/0" --wallet-type ethereum --max-tokens 3

Found in 2 days minutes using Google-500 list...3hrs on a Ryzen Threadripper or Linode 48 core.)

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