Password Cracking Prerequisites

The process of Cracking Passwords is as follows:

  1. Extract hashes

  2. Format hashes

  3. Calculate the cracking time

  4. Prepare wordlist

  5. Attack the hash

Formatting Hashes

Once we extract password hashes we need to format them based on the hashing algorithm. Here are tools to help identify hashing algorithms:

LogoGitHub - blackploit/hash-identifier: Software to identify the different types of hashes used to encrypt data and especially passwordsGitHub
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Wordlist Preparation

In nearly all cases we'll need to mutate our wordlist and perform a rule-based attack based on the password policy in place.

CeWL

CeWL (Custom Wordlist Generator) is a tool we can use that spiders a website and outputs a wordlist.

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