Now open up a terminal window and fire off the following So, we have the rockyou.txt dictionary on our desktop, and we have the new hashdump, which I edited so there is only two passwords to crack, the Administrator and the IEUser. For MD5 and SHA1 hashes, we have a 190GB, 15-billion-entry lookup table, and for. We also applied intelligent word mangling (brute force hybrid) to our wordlists to make them much more effective. You can find many of these dictionaries online, sometimes they are comprised of stolen passwords from actual websites! As my chosen password was not in the standard rockyou.txt dictionary I have added it for the purposes of this tutorial. Crackstations lookup tables were created by extracting every word from the Wikipedia databases and adding with every password list we could find. The bigger your dictionary the more chance there is of cracking the password. A password dictionary is basically a text file with a list of words which can be used to try and crack the password. In this case we have the rockyou.txt dictionary.
This time we will use Hashcat to crack the password, and we will use a dictionary type attack. Now I will re-run the steps for method 2 in the previous tutorial and we will get a new hashdump as well as the password hint Crack using Hashcat Now we will change the password to something a little less obvious.
#CRACK LM HASH NT HASH DECRYPT CRACKED#
It is cracked very quickly just a few seconds.
#CRACK LM HASH NT HASH DECRYPT WINDOWS 10#
Both of these are the same Passw0rd! which is the default password used on the virtual box Windows 10 machine. We were successful in cracking the password for the IEUser and the Administrator.