I have already written articles on How you can hack windows passwords Using various tools such as Ophcrack ,Chntpw and i have also written an article on how to hack windows password using stick keys . In this article i will explain an another way to Hack/crack windows password using Pwdump and John the ripper
Hack Windows Password Using Pwdump and John The Ripper
Things we need :-
1. Pwdump - To dump windows password hashes
2. John the Ripper - To crack the dumped password hashes
Procedure:-
1. Open My computer and go to C:\Windows\system32 ,now place the Pwdump file which we download earlier
2. Now open command prompt and navigate to C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump By Using the "cd " command and click enter
4. Now enter pwdump - localhost >>“ destination of the output file “ (for 32-bit computers) and pwdump -x localhost >> “destination of the out put file “(for 64- bit computers )
5. Now open the Out put file (In my case its hash.txt )From c:/ you can see the names of the different users with password hashes Now copy the hashes corresponding to the admin account
6. Now make JTR (John the ripper ) crackable file by Opening a notepad and pasting the hashes which we copied in the previous step in the format given below
Hack Windows Password Using Pwdump and John The Ripper
Things we need :-
1. Pwdump - To dump windows password hashes
2. John the Ripper - To crack the dumped password hashes
Procedure:-
1. Open My computer and go to C:\Windows\system32 ,now place the Pwdump file which we download earlier
2. Now open command prompt and navigate to C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump By Using the "cd " command and click enter
Example :-3. Now you can see a list of Pwdump commands as shown
Cd C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump
4. Now enter pwdump - localhost >>“ destination of the output file “ (for 32-bit computers) and pwdump -x localhost >> “destination of the out put file “(for 64- bit computers )
Example :-
Cd C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump localhost >> C:\hash.txt (for 32-bit computers )
Cd C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump -x localhost >> C:\hash.txt (for 64-bit computers)
5. Now open the Out put file (In my case its hash.txt )From c:/ you can see the names of the different users with password hashes Now copy the hashes corresponding to the admin account
6. Now make JTR (John the ripper ) crackable file by Opening a notepad and pasting the hashes which we copied in the previous step in the format given below
Example:-
User:gyuJo098KkLy9
where "gyuJo098KkLy9" is the hash which we copied in the 5th step
7. Save the file as crackme.txt (just an example) and go to the prompt and type 'john crackme.txt' (with out quotes ). Now wait for a while ,the password hashes will be cracked .You can also use the Various options in John the ripper to make the cracking a little faster .
For this you can refer my Tutorial on John the Ripper
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