Cracking NTLM passwords
There is nothing like hands on learning, so let’s crack some hashes! We will take a list of hashes and copy them into a text file. And then we will crack them using Hashcat and a dictionary file. Again, I will be showing the commands run in Kali Linux, but the commands are identical in Windows.
➢ Open your favorite text editor and copy in the following NTLM Hashes:
a4f49c406510bdcab6824ee7c30fd852
2e4dbf83aa056289935daea328977b20
d144986c6122b1b1654ba39932465528
4a8441c8b2b55ee3ef6465c83f01aa7b
259745cb123a52aa2e693aaacca2db52
d5e2155516f1d7228302b90afd3cd539
5835048ce94ad0564e29a924a03510ef
b963c57010f218edc2cc3c229b5e4d0f
f773c5db7ddebefa4b0dae7ee8c50aea
5d05e3883afc84f1842f8b1c6d895fa4
6afd63afaebf74211010f02ba62a1b3e
43fccfa6bae3d14b26427c26d00410ef
27c0555ea55ecfcdba01c022681dda3f
9439b142f202437a55f7c52f6fcf82d3
➢ Save them in the Kali Home directory as a file called “...