How to crack Windows password? #65

 

How to crack Windows password?

Note: For education purpose only

 

How to hack

We are going to hack windows account with a simple password. Windows uses NTLM hashes to encrypt passwords. We will use the NTLM cracker tool in Cain and able to do that.

 

Cain and able

Cain and able cracker can be used to crack passwords using:

Directory attack

Brute force

Cryptanalysis

 

We will use the dictionary attack in this example. You will need to download the dictionary attack wordlist from our telegram channel.

 

Steps to follow:

Step:1

For this detonation, we need to create a windows accounts with the password qwerty on windows 7.

 

Step:2

Open Cain and able (windows software) make sure the cracker tab is selected.

 

Step:3

Click on the add button on the toolbar. The following dialog windows will appear:

 

Step:4

The local users account will be display as follows. Note the result show will be of the user account on your local machine.

Step:5

Right click on the account you want to crack. For this tutorial, we will use account as the user account.

 

Step:6

After right click go to dictionary attack > NTLM hashes Right click on the dictionary selection and select add to list.

 

Step:7

Browser to the 10K most common.txt file that you just download from our telegram channel and click on the start button.

 

Note: If the user used a simple password like qwerty, then you should be able to get the following result.