April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
7h 59m
English
In this recipe, we are going to see how we can crack the hashes for a clear-text password. We will be using John the Ripper. John the Ripper (JTR) is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt (3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.
We will require the hash obtained on the Windows machine to be ported to our Kali machine, after which we can commence with a comparison of the hashes.
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