begood Posted May 21, 2010 Report Posted May 21, 2010 The goal is to unify all of the good information found in various bits and pieces into 1 large document. This document is for people who want to learn to the how and why of password cracking. There is a lot of information being presented and you should READ IT ALL BEFORE you attempted doing anything documented here. I do my best to provide step by step instructions along with the reasons for doing it this way. Other times I will point to a particular website where you find the information. In those cases someone else has done what I attempting and did a good or great job and I didn’t want to steal their hard work. These instructions have several excerpts from a combination of posts from pureh@te, granger53, irongeek, PrairieFire, and stasik. I would also like to thank each of them and others for the help they have provided me on the BackTrack forum.I had to compress the document so I could attach it. The document as it stands now is 127K. Please let me know if what I have is wrong, or if there is a better way to do something, or if I am missing something. I am planning on making enhancements as people make me aware of them. Here is the table of contents1 LM vs. NTLM2 Syskey3 Cracking Windows Passwords 3.1 Extracting the hashes from the Windows SAM 3.1.1 Using BackTrack Tools 3.1.1.1 Using bkhive and samdump v1.1.1 (BT2 and BT3) 3.1.1.2 Using samdump2 v2.0.1 (BT4) 3.1.1.3 Cached Credentials 3.1.2 Using Windows Tools 3.1.2.1 Using fgdump 3.1.2.2 Using gsecdump 3.1.2.3 Using pwdump7 3.1.2.4 Cached Credentials 3.2 Extracting the hashes from the Windows SAM remotely 3.2.1 Using BackTrack Tools 3.2.1.1 ettercap 3.2.2 Using Windows Tools 3.2.2.1 Using fgdump 3.3 Cracking Windows Passwords 3.3.1 Using BackTrack Tools 3.3.1.1 John the Ripper BT3 and BT4 3.3.1.1.1 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.1.1.2 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.1.1.3 Cracking the NTLM using the cracked LM hash 3.3.1.1.4 Cracking cached credentials 3.3.1.2 John the Ripper - current 3.3.1.2.1 Get and Compile 3.3.1.2.2 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.1.2.3 Cracking the LM hash using known letter(s) in known location(s) (knownforce) 3.3.1.2.4 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.1.2.5 Cracking the NTLM hash using the cracked LM hash (dumbforce) 3.3.1.2.6 Cracking cached credentials 3.3.1.3 Using MDCrack 3.3.1.3.1 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.1.3.2 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.1.3.3 Cracking the NTLM hash using the cracked LM hash 3.3.1.4 Using Ophcrack 3.3.1.4.1 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.1.4.2 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.1.4.3 Cracking the NTLM hash using the cracked LM hash 3.3.2 Using Windows Tools 3.3.2.1 John the Ripper 3.3.2.1.1 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.2.1.2 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.2.1.3 Cracking the NTLM hash using the cracked LM hash 3.3.2.1.4 Cracking cached credentials 3.3.2.2 Using MDCrack 3.3.2.2.1 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.2.2.2 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.2.2.3 Cracking the NTLM hash using the cracked LM hash 3.3.2.3 Using Ophcrack 3.3.2.3.1 Cracking the LM hash 3.3.2.3.2 Cracking the NTLM hash 3.3.2.3.3 Cracking the NTLM hash using the cracked LM hash 3.3.2.4 Using Cain and Abel 3.3.3 Using a Live CD 3.3.3.1 Ophcrack4. Changing Windows Passwords 4.1 Changing Local User Passwords 4.1.1 Using BackTrack Tools 4.1.1.1 chntpw 4.1.2 Using a Live CD 4.1.2.1 chntpw 4.1.2.2 System Rescue CD 4.2 Changing Active Directory Passwords5 plain-text.info6 Cracking Novell NetWare Passwords7 Cracking Linux/Unix Passwords8 Cracking networking equipment passwords 8.1 Using BackTrack tools 8.1.1 Using Hydra 8.1.2 Using Xhydra 8.1.3 Using Medusa 8.1.4 Using John the Ripper to crack a Cisco hash 8.2 Using Windows tools 8.2.1 Using Brutus9 Cracking Applications 9.1 Cracking Oracle 11g (sha1) 9.2 Cracking Oracle passwords over the wire 9.3 Cracking Office passwords 9.4 Cracking tar passwords 9.5 Cracking zip passwords 9.6 Cracking pdf passwords10 Wordlists aka Dictionary attack 10.1 Using John the Ripper to generate a wordlist 10.2 Configuring John the Ripper to use a wordlist 10.3 Using crunch to generate a wordlist 10.4 Generate a wordlist from a textfile or website 10.5 Using premade wordlists 10.6 Other wordlist generators 10.7 Manipulating your wordlist11 Rainbow Tables 11.1 What are they? 11.2 Generating your own 11.2.1 rcrack - obsolete but works 11.2.2 rcracki 11.2.3 rcracki - boinc client 11.2.4 Generating a rainbow table 11.3 WEP cracking 11.4 WPA-PSK 11.4.1 airolib 11.4.2 pyrit12 Distributed Password cracking 12.1 john 12.2 medussa (not a typo this is not medusa)13 using a GPU 13.1 cuda - nvidia 13.2 stream - atiThanks,P.S. Thank you everyone for your feedback. Keep it coming.Changes from version 0.1 * Added a section on plain-text.info * Added a section on using john the ripper with a custom character list * Added Xploitz’s and pureh@te’s wordlistsChanges from version 0.2 - 200 downloads * Added sections on using ophcrack * Added sections on Cain and Able under windows * Fixed a typo * New html formatChanges from version 0.3 - 410 downloads * Moved some content to where it should have been * Added a section on crunch * Fixed typos * Fixed a whole lot of html issues * Slightly rearranged things to flow betterChanges from version 0.4 - 877 downloads * Added a section on cached credentials * Expanded the Novell section * Fixed typos * Fixed a couple of html errors * Moved some things around * New utility to dump passwordsChanges from version 0.5 - 1573 downloads * added wpa pw-inspector command * added a wordlist manipulation section * added usage of fgdump * added rcracki section * added a sample hash.txt to play with * john can be used for input to aircrack-ng * moved a few things around for a better flowChanges from version 0.6 - 422 downloads * added a section on generating a wordlist from a website * added head, tail, and sed commands to wordlist manipulation * added a section on xhdrya (pointing to Pureh@te's video) * added a section on gsecdump * added a section on medusa * added a section on cisco * expanded the crunch section * moved everything around in an effort to make things easier to find * the dumbforce and knownforce are not finishedChanges from version 0.7 - 4596 downloads * Fixed john --incremental=All --stdout | aircrack-ng -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -w --test.cap missing a - Thanks to roblad for pointing it outChanges from version 0.8 - 302 + 1226 (old forums + new) * updated the guide to support BT4-Pre-Final * switched from transitional html to strict html * added a section on cracking office passwords * added a section on cracking rar passwords * added a section on cracking zip passwords * added a section on cracking pdf passwords * added instructions for remote password dumping for fgdump * point users to john the ripper wiki for dumbforce and knownforce usage * convert text urls to links * updated links * update versions of software (wine and rcrack) * fixed several spelling mistakesChanges from version 0.9 * updated the guide to support BT4 Final * fixed links to pureh@te's videos * added instructions to update flash so you can watch videos clearly * updated the john the ripper section to current versions * added instructions for using rainbow tables for WPA cracking * added two new leetifing scripts * added a small cupp discussion * added a section on pyrit * added a section on distributed password cracking using john and medussa * added a section on cuda and stream * fixed typo in hash.txtMOD EDIT: Download link for the guide:http://tools.question-defense.com/Cr...ords_Guide.pdfPassword Cracking Guide Quote
