Password Cracking

Password Cracking can be done with rainbow tables or using brute force. Running millions of possible passwords brought the hashing algorithm could result the same password hash than the original. Then we have most likely cracked the password.

Cracking Tools

Online tools

• Crackstation weak md5 hashes

Terminal Tools

• hashcat
  • Never use –force
• JohnTheRipper

GUI Tools

Cracking station

GPUs are lots faster than CPUs on password cracking. Virtual Machines don’t normally have access to the GPU, so it is lots faster to crack them on your host OS.